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How often do you read it. What was the last book of poetry you read ?

― anthony, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

not as often as i should, though lately i've been dipping into Simon Armitage. on a completely different subject though, have you read Chaos, anthony? there was a big bit in the middle of it which made me think of you for some reason (though i was pissed when i was reading it) - i'll post it later.

― katie, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'The Eyes' - Don Patison. Before 'Atomised', which is what I am reading now!

― Will, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hell of a lot. Last one I read? A book of Hart Crane poetry.

― Kodanshi, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

any Prynne nutters in this bee-yatch?

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

potry is ponce is all pretend shus shit only potry i kno is five lines long abot young ladys from diffrnt parts of the wurld cos i am real an that uni of life is wot i went too

― fick persen, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Rarely read poetry. Last poetry book was probably a Haiku book.

― helen fordsdale, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've been reading a lot of Dorothy PArker recently. Her poetry goes from clever but shallow, to deep and adolescent - but it does have a certain charm.

― Pete, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I read it when I see it, but I don't go out of my way. The last was a few hours with an old edition of the Faber Book of Modern Poetry, a couple of months ago at Isabel's.

― Tom, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A really good book of poetry I just read was Fernando Pessoa's Selected Poems.

― maryann, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I dip occasionally and without much discernment. Actually, I'm saving it for my forties, when I will also read all of Shakespeare and begin my odyssey in classical music. In my fifties I will establish a permaculture garden, and learn to pot, and in my sixties I am pencilled in to become one of those old age travellers who buy a mobile home and follow the sun round southern Europe. If there still is any sun/southern Europe. I may also write and self-publish my novel/memoirs at this point.

― Ellie, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't read books of poetry straight through ever. I browse through them slowly and not in order so that every time I read them, they seem completely unfamiliar except for the poems I absolutely adore. The last one I was reading was Tulips & Chimneys by E.E. Cummings or e.e. cummings or however you will have it said because you know who I mean ANYWAY! Right, it's a lovely book.

― Maria, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

last book of poetry i bought was PRYNNE'S COLLECTED POEMS!! I only got to page 12 har har. I will FITE anyone who disses him but i understood not a bladdy wurd.

I shall write on Prynne when i finish "S.Hawking: History, Time, Hype and a Barrel of Schoolboy Howlers"

― mark s, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I read it a few times a month unless I go on a binge. I think I have some kind of compulsion to read big chunks of books, which makes it hard to read poetry often because it's much denser to read (or, alternatively, I read a lot of it and nothing sticks). Of course, next to my habit of constantly starting to read new non-poetry books, this doesn't make sense, but I never said that how I read made sense.

According to my list the last book of poetry I read was either a) Pale Fire, if that counts, or b) The Waste Land and Other Poems. I'm still poking around in WCW's collected poems, and I have not that many Dream Songs left before I finish them. I've also been kicking around a book of Akhmatova in the original Russian with translations on facing pages.

PS I still think Eliot is pretty worthless.

― Josh, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The one of Margret Atwoods that a gave to my mom a last winter sadly, I reread some Bukowski afterwards and currently use Burning In Water Drowing in Flame to block the light from my stereo display at night.

An excerpt from Howl did pop up recently when I logged into my linux box but thats been about it.

― Mr Noodles, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pretty often. The last book would have been Mary Oliver's House of Light. And some crazy short prose collections by Russel Edson and Julio Cortazar. Good stuff if you like heady stuff like Barth or Borges.

― bnw, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Every so often. I just bought a book of Shel Silverstein's children's poems at a flea market. It's called A Light in the Attic. i thought it'd be a lot funnier. He did write "A Boy Named Sue" and "Freakin' at the Freaker's Ball", after all. Before that, some Stevie Smith.

― Arthur, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When I look for something to read it's not usually poetry, but I'm not sure why, because I'm always harping on the laziness of standard forms in other media (have I subjected you to my "why can't I see 20- minute films at the cinema" harangue yet?) I think of poems as REALLY short stories. So I like poets who keep the language simple, clear, and as if they were talking to you. After a neccessary e.e. cummings idolatry phase in my teens I have become hostile to any sort of ostentatious enjambment and pun(ctuation) as just frou-frou coleslaw on what ought to be an honest meaty plate. The last book of poetry I read was a collection of Lorca poems. I like poetry in translation - cause the flim-flam don't translate. I can (usually) do without it.

That said, has anyone read Pushkin in Russian? He is often said to be the greatest poet of the modern world, but notoriously untranslateable. Given that his verse was (I think) fairly direct, I wonder why?

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I often return to John Berryman - "Love her he doesn't but the thought he puts/into that young woman/would launch a national product/complete with TV spots and skywriting/outlets in Bonn and Tokyo/I mean it" - because I find that I understand a little more each time I read him, and because his humanity, humour and despair always help me through the 'difficult' patches. I also like the fact that he isn't a bloody nature poet, and that he isn't afraid to be silly or slangy. I also have Faber's bk of 'modern' American poetry which I dip into from time to time - I started to appreciate Anne Sexton recently - and in the past I have enjoyed Hart Crane, some of Auden, Gregory Corso, Ginsberg, Whitman, Robert Frost and (gulp) Larkin, even tho' he was a right-wing racist w/ silly ideas abt jazz. I generally have little time for luv poetry - ixnay on the metaphysics pl! - and suspect that I am essentially a fiction reader who likes poetry w/ some kind of narrative. Elliot's classical riffs and refs sail right over my head.

― Andrew L, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I used to read poetry quite voraciously, especially the usual cast of romantic 19th Century ones. (Keats was a particular favourite, and Dickenson and Dot Parker, as were French pervs like the usual Baudelaire/Rimbaud/Verlaine axis). And then one day I simply stopped liking it. Don't know why, don't know if it will come back.

I'm reading this book at the moment (Posession, yes, I know I should have read it ages ago, but I didn't so hush) and it keeps breaking into these long lyric poems and I keep finding myself just turning off.

I don't think this is a good thing. I wish my appreciation would come back. How can you be pretensious and intellectual if you're turned off by poetry?

― kate, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I used to read lots of poetry when I was a student, but now I'm working I rarely have the appetite for it. Two of my favourite anthologies are "Postmodern American Poetry" edited by Paul Hoover and "Poems for the Millenium - The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry Vol. 1" edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris.

My favourite kinds of poems are ones about cities. Apollinaire and Frank O'Hara were particularly good at cataloguing all of the random information that city-dwellers are bombarded with everyday. Their poems are littered with place-names, brand-names and fragments of overheard conversations. Their technique was similar to collage.

All of my favourite poets were influenced by the visual arts and music. I used to be interested in stuff like Sound Poetry and Concrete Poetry but I find those styles a bit too dry and academic now. I prefer poets such as William Carlos Williams who experimented with form but who still tried to communicate with readers in a direct way.

― Mark Dixon, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, what Andrew said. Fuck nature poets.

Tracer, I've read a very tiny bit of Pushkin in Russian. Perhaps not enough to answer your question.

― Josh, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My question basically = "why wasn't I born Russian" so I don't think you can help me anyway.

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's called A Light in the Attic.i thought it'd be a lot funnier

Wait, did you like it or not? Because if not, you are no longer welcome in my general vicinity. CHOOSE WISELY. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sorry Tracer, I've already granted one person Russian birth this month.

― Josh, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eleven years pass...

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/22/samantha-lewthwaite-love-poem-osama-bin-laden

Oh sheik osama my father, my brother

My love for you is like no other

Oh Sheik Osama now that you are gone

The muslims must wake up they must be strong

I know that you are in a better place

That Allah has bestowed upon you grace.

Us we are left to continue what you started.

To seek the victory until we are martyred.

To instill terror into kuffar.

Until the world is governed by la illaha illala.

Oh sheik osama no (sic) this for true

My heart will not find peace until all muslims do.

Everything you had you gave for Allah

No surrender will take us all far.

Your life an example of how we should be.

Oh Muslims listen to our beloved sheik's words

Let not his struggle and efforts go unheard

Revive what he started and strive to success

Then maybe we can be raised with the best.

Oh sheik Osama we are jealous of you to be of those who the promise is true

The promise is truth which is binding if only we knew

Verily Allah has purchased the lives of the believers that theirs shall be paradise.

They fight in Allahs cause, so they kill and are killed.

It is a promise binding on Allah in taurat, injill and Qur'an

And who is truer to his covenant than Allah?

As for our enemies our words will be less.

You picked the wrong army to contest.

Al Qaeda are stronger and fiercer than ever.

Thinking in the end you are stupid it will NEVER

Be over until the day that we see our lands returned and governed by He Allah the almighty, whose law is complete.

So make your plans and He is the best of planners.

Their was no victory for you Mr Obama, the honour is his on martyred Osama!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How does al-Qaida keep claiming our best and brightest?

― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 12:11 (twelve years ago)

it's okay to click on this, the bump is not really about poetry.

(post echoes through empty thread)

― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 12:29 (twelve years ago)

three weeks pass...

Anyone seen this?

http://ovii.oerc.ox.ac.uk/PoemVis/index.html

― polyphonic, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 19:55 (twelve years ago)

nine years pass...

the link doesnt seem to be working man

but I did see this guy's faves

https://web.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/poetry/

― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 13:33 (three years ago)

eight months pass...

horror poetry at its finest. A24 should buy the rights immediately.

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― scott seward, Saturday, 30 September 2023 14:53 (two years ago)

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