A day-long course on T S Eliot – The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Wasteland. I got what I had hoped for: an interesting day and a spur to go further. I realise now how hearing his poems read aloud makes so much difference. Eliot himself wrote: “Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood”, and that certainly chimed with me. Listening to a recording of Eliot reciting Prufrock helped me to enjoy the sound and rhythm without feeling any urgency to analyse it.

I checked on the entrance to the Kingsway tram tunnel too: yes, it is still there.