Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Starting to Read Poetry

I've been looking for good places to begin read poetry on the internet.

I found Verse Daily. It prints a new poem each day. I think that all the work is contemporary and that the poems are all published elsewhere. I have decided to read it each day. I have been doing so for a week and seem to be getting very little out of it. I have started reading the poems out loud, but that doesn't seem to help.

I have also visited The Poetry Archive. This is a substantial collection of recordings of poets reading there own poems. It provides a number of ways to explore the poems, including guided tours by well known people with an interest in poetry. Each guided tour consists of a list of about six poems with the tour guides thoughts on each. From each recording it is possible to navigate to information about the poet, and their other poems. So far the poem that I have enjoyed the most has been Perfection Isn't Like a Perfect Story by PJ Kavanagh. I liked the fact that it rhymed and that it was clearly about a specific experience.

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