Poetry booklets

Good news - we have won some extra project funding! We're using this to create a booklet of the poems that we selected for the bonus episodes of our podcast series.
 
Over the past few days Bruce has been busy assembling all the material for the booklet, including an ISBN, and laying out the text. Hazel is now busy working on the preface. Once everything is order, we will send our master document for printing. 

We intend to take hard copies of the booklet to the podcast series launch event at Great Malvern Priory on Tuesday 24th May (free tickets available, blippers very welcome!) Those who come along will be able to pick up a copy as a souvenir of the day in exchange for a small donation to the Malvern Museum of Local History.
 
Here we have blipped an earlier collection of Lorna's poetry. From the dates against the poems within the exercise book, it looks like Lorna assembled her collection some time in/after 1931, when she was 17 years old. It was dedicated her Uncle Percy. Unfortunately (for us) she had two uncles of this name, but we guess that this Uncle Percy is probably Uncle Percy Lloyd, the great grandfather of our project board member Guy Puzey, and great-great-great uncle of Bethany Ray, who plays Lorna in our podcast series.
 
Around a decade after 'publishing' her collection, it looks like Lorna was not so proud of her earlier work. She provides a wee commentary on this in her use of the words 'La nécessité de parler, l’embarras de n’avoir rien à dire, et l’envie d’avoir de l’esprit, sont trois choses capables de rendre ridicule même le plus grand homme'. This is a quotation form Voltaire's Lettres philosophiques. It translates (roughly) as 'The need to speak, the embarrassment of having nothing to say, and the desire to be witty, are three things capable of making even the greatest man ridiculous'.