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We are a committee of six people at the moment. There is room for more volunteers to attend meetings every two months and take part in developing new areas of action. Meetings are now held in person at members’ homes. If you would like to volunteer, please contact us.

Somerville

‘tutorials’, ‘quads’, the plash of punts
mist on an autumn evening, biking round
the sheldonian, invisible in fog
the libraries’ air as still as sleep
halls full of talking students, comfort, food
portraits of faces more familiar than living dons
whose liberal care was mild as oxford’s spring
sub-fusc was deadly dark, like tutored ants
and schools a marbled monument to hope
contrast it with our shabby, cheap, warm house
of seven undergraduates and friends
three years of searching study and hot soup
from friars on st giles on winter afternoons

Linda Appleby