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Company: Streatham Theatre Company
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Event Website: https://streathamtheatre.org.uk/event/may-2026
Title: Exploring T. S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land
Credits: Led by Yasmin Smith and Mike Jennett
Summary: As it says!
Category: Poetry, Second Tuesday Event, Spoken word
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Start date:12 May 2026
End date:12 May 2026
Times: 7.30pm (Doors 7pm)
Admission: Members FREE, others £5, at the door
Description:
The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot’s magazine The Criterion. Among its famous phrases are “April is the cruellest month”, “I will show you fear in a handful of dust”, and “These fragments I have shored against my ruins”.
The Waste Land does not follow a single narrative or feature a consistent style or structure. The poem shifts between voices of satire and prophecy, and features abrupt and unannounced changes of narrator, location, and time, conjuring a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures.
The text is available online through Project Gutenberg.
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Venue: Vinters Studios http://www.vintersstudios.co.uk
Venue Address: 1b Sunnyhill Road, London SW16 2UG