Comments for fifty-two poets http://52poets.wordpress.com a year of reading poetry Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:59:25 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on thirty-three: Lavinia Greenlaw, Minsk by Dave Leek http://52poets.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/thirty-three-lavinia-greenlaw-minsk/#comment-215 Dave Leek Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:59:25 +0000 http://52poets.wordpress.com/?p=147#comment-215 I love this poem too. Same story! I read it for the first time in the London Tube and it totally won me over. Perhaps because I wan't expecting it there end then, in this stuffy uninspiring train? It just stood there - dense and beautiful. I wonder how many people had the same response as the two of us. I did buy the entire "Minsk" collection after that, but nothing in there had the same impact as the Sisu poem on me. I love this poem too. Same story! I read it for the first time in the London Tube and it totally won me over. Perhaps because I wan’t expecting it there end then, in this stuffy uninspiring train? It just stood there – dense and beautiful. I wonder how many people had the same response as the two of us.

I did buy the entire “Minsk” collection after that, but nothing in there had the same impact as the Sisu poem on me.

]]> Comment on thirty-four: John Burnside, Gift Songs by The Hunt in the Forest « To make is such. Let us make. And set the weather fair. http://52poets.wordpress.com/2008/09/21/thirty-four-john-burnside-gift-songs/#comment-208 The Hunt in the Forest « To make is such. Let us make. And set the weather fair. Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:46:35 +0000 http://52poets.wordpress.com/?p=149#comment-208 [...] one of his collections, Gift Songs, which I read and posted about last year on my 52 Poets blog here. But this poem, ‘The Hunt in the Forest’, just popped up on my RSS feed from the [...] [...] one of his collections, Gift Songs, which I read and posted about last year on my 52 Poets blog here. But this poem, ‘The Hunt in the Forest’, just popped up on my RSS feed from the [...]

]]> Comment on twenty-two: Alice Oswald, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile by Mark Wilson http://52poets.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/alice-oswald-the-thing-in-the-gap-stone-stile/#comment-203 Mark Wilson Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:12:41 +0000 http://52poets.wordpress.com/?p=32#comment-203 Having read this piece above about a very authentic english nature poet, then i want to suggest the true alternative to Alice Oswald, and in fact a poet she rates above her own work, and is quoted as saying 'one of very few living poets who i go back to' and that poet is Paul Stubbs, and his book 'The Icon Maker' which to read is to be transported about 25 years into the future, a truly epic and astonishing book, that leaves the majority of english poetry floundering in its wake. The young poet above who discovered Oswald she read this book, it might disturb, feel like an affront on the senses, but like all great poetry it will never leave you. Having read this piece above about a very authentic english nature poet, then i want to suggest the true alternative to Alice Oswald, and in fact a poet she rates above her own work, and is quoted as saying ‘one of very few living poets who i go back to’ and that poet is Paul Stubbs, and his book ‘The Icon Maker’ which to read is to be transported about 25 years into the future, a truly epic and astonishing book, that leaves the majority of english poetry floundering in its wake. The young poet above who discovered Oswald she read this book, it might disturb, feel like an affront on the senses, but like all great poetry it will never leave you.

]]> Comment on the end by jeff barrett http://52poets.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/the-end/#comment-202 jeff barrett Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:59:09 +0000 http://52poets.wordpress.com/?p=248#comment-202 Hi Katherine, you've created a great archive here. Are you writing any where else? Have you read the new Alice Oswald books yet? Drop me a line if you get a minute. all the best Jeff Hi Katherine,

you’ve created a great archive here. Are you writing any where else?

Have you read the new Alice Oswald books yet? Drop me a line if you get a minute.

all the best

Jeff

]]> Comment on the end by permanenttourist http://52poets.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/the-end/#comment-186 permanenttourist Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:27:59 +0000 http://52poets.wordpress.com/?p=248#comment-186 Congratulations.. I really hope you follow this blog with another on the classics/epics! Don't forget Beowulf ;) tom x Congratulations.. I really hope you follow this blog with another on the classics/epics! Don’t forget Beowulf ;)

tom x

]]> Comment on the end by kayvee http://52poets.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/the-end/#comment-184 kayvee Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:55:30 +0000 http://52poets.wordpress.com/?p=248#comment-184 Thanks Neil! Thanks Neil!

]]> Comment on the end by Neil Cocker http://52poets.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/the-end/#comment-183 Neil Cocker Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:06:17 +0000 http://52poets.wordpress.com/?p=248#comment-183 Congratulations! I'm nowhere near as poetry-literate as you, but I did enjoy reading your posts. :) Congratulations!

I’m nowhere near as poetry-literate as you, but I did enjoy reading your posts.

:)

]]> Comment on the end by kayvee http://52poets.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/the-end/#comment-182 kayvee Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:46:47 +0000 http://52poets.wordpress.com/?p=248#comment-182 Fifty-two pretty short books, mind. I'm not <em>that</em> clever. Fifty-two pretty short books, mind. I’m not that clever.

]]> Comment on the end by Peter Lynn http://52poets.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/the-end/#comment-181 Peter Lynn Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:44:28 +0000 http://52poets.wordpress.com/?p=248#comment-181 Although I do frequently mix up "of" and "or". Although I do frequently mix up “of” and “or”.

]]> Comment on the end by Peter Lynn http://52poets.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/the-end/#comment-180 Peter Lynn Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:44:06 +0000 http://52poets.wordpress.com/?p=248#comment-180 Congratulations, Kitty! Good work! You read more than fifty more books than I did all year! (Okay, maybe thirty of forty -- I'm not <i>that</i> dim.) Congratulations, Kitty! Good work! You read more than fifty more books than I did all year! (Okay, maybe thirty of forty — I’m not that dim.)

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