I have plenty of poetry that I love. Most of my favourites are poets that people know or have heard of. My favourite collections though are Tell Me the Truth About Love by W.H. Auden, Sonnets From the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barret Browning, The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot, Ariel by Sylvia Plath, and Love Poems and Death Threats by Samuel Wagan Watson. And as a honourable mention I feel the need to say Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis and Serious Concerns which are both by Wendy Cope.
Love poetry! I mostly listen to them on audio so it’s cool to see your physical collection! A few that I’d recommend are Black Girl Call Home, Finna, Homie, Side Notes from the Archivist, and If They Come For Us!
Love poetry! I mostly listen to them on audio so it’s cool to see your physical collection! A few that I’d recommend are Black Girl Call Home, Finna, Homie, Side Notes from the Archivist, and If They Come For Us!
I love Mary Oliver! Her collection Thirst was one of the best. I just put all her, Rumi's and Ocea Vuong's that my library has on hold, thanks to rhis video😅
Ocean Vuong and Mary Oliver are my favourite poets I love them sooo much!❤ Another poet you could try is Ada Limon I really loved her collection Bright Dead Things!
Poetry is so unique to person (although wooo everyone read Ocean Vuong). My fave poets are still Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti. I started reading Emily Dickinson in middle school because Vanessa Pike - one of the Pike siblings in the Babysitters Club series - love Emily Dickinson and wants to be a poet (LOL) and then I read AS Byatt's Possession, which is a literary mystery about the secret lives of two Victorian poets who were based on Christina Rossetti and Robert Browning. There are collected poetry collections for both Emily and Christina, but they're pretty thick which can be kind of scary, but Emily rarely wrote a poem over several stanzas (google "Truth is the thing with feathers" or "Tell all the truth, but tell it slant" ) and while Christina wrote some longer allegorical pieces (Goblin Market) her shorter pieces are great ("Promises like pie crust") - some were turned into songs by Carla Bruni for her album No Promises.
I‘m in such a poetry mood right now, but don’t really know how to get into it, so thank you 🙌🏼 I do like Rupi Kaur‘s books and I ordered one of Mary Oliver’s.
I have not read some good poetry books in over 20 years so I’m going to read some of these amazing poems from you love this video and your amazing channel ❤prayers and thoughts for you and your family love your fellow Aussie John ❤❤
Chloe, if you liked Fernando Pessoa's poetry, you should definitely search for "the book of disquiet" also by him, and look out for his heteronyms. It's insane lol. I'm a huge fan of him, and I even have a tattoo by the book of disquiet. Hope you love it ❤
I noticed your floating shelf is tilting a lot and you don’t want it to break from the drywall and fall! That has happened to me before. So definitely want to check on that!
There is a collection of essays by Mary Oliver “Upstream” about nature life and creativity which was so beautiful and I think you might also like “”A year with rumi” (365 poems for every day)
hi chloe bunny! love all the recs in this video. one of my favorite poets is ross gay! i read "catalog of unabashed attitude" a couple years ago and it really resonated with me. there are poems in there that i still get choked up just thinking about them. hope you're well
You need to try the book of disquiet since you loved fernando pessoa! All of his work... is quiet something... imagine reading in his mother language- that is mine! Thank you for all the other recs chloee
I like a lot of weird/horror/fantasy poets. So Poe, Baudelaire, Clark Ashton Smith ( The goat!!! ) HP Lovecraft ( Most of his is not good, but his Fungi from Yuggoth sonnets are awesome ), Leah Bodine Drake, Robert E Howard, George Sterling, Michael Fantina, Donald Sydney Fryer, Richard L Tierney, Ashley Dioses, Ann K. Schwader, Fred Phillips ( A lot of LoTR’s poems and just seems like a chill old man ) Kyla Lee Ward. My favorite conventional poets are probably Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Frost. Whitman is the only free verse poet I can stand and is a nice breath of joy compared to all the doom n gloom I usually read. Emily Dickinson is like reading Haikus, she’s brilliant and makes you think. Robert Frost reminds me of if Cormac McCarthy wrote poetry. It reminds me of New Hampshire or quiet farmlands. If you like Pessoa, you should read his Book of Disquiet. It’s prose, but still very poetic. One of my favorite books. What a wonderful writer he was!
The complex nature of power structures The qualitative analysis of moral paralysis Converging in a multitude of administrative substructures You could spend decades putting into words what is immediately apparent in pictures Compared to men women are fundamentally lesser My weakest arguments are stronger than the strongest arguments of a nutty professor Professional second-guessers Subject to administrative pressures Political correctness amid a general reluctance to explain why black communities in particular are picture-perfect portraits of pain
This is about sonic da hedgehog A tired blue hedgehog dreaming about yummy chilli dogs Very warm bread Chilli flowing steam out Sweet dreams Sweet dreams You may have…
I wasn't a fan of princess saves herself in this one. Your reaction to the mermaid one was my reaction to that one. Just okay and very underwhelmed. Which is a shame because I did really like her to make monster out of girls. There was a certain punch to the poetry and I liked the ongoing metaphor of comparisons of this relationship to a funeral. I have considered reading others of the series, especially considering how a lot of people pick the witch one as their favourite (and I am a title girl and that is a damn good title), but every time I pick it up in the bookstore and flip through them I just don't care for it.
I think that Amanda Lovelace and Rupi Kaur are great starter poets to try, especially the vignette style of their poetry is very accessible, but I agree with you that after you start reading more and more poetry, their poems become less and less impactful. I've started seeing poetry like that as more inspirational quotes, and for me and my poetry tastes, I just need something more. I look forward to checking out your other recs! I highly recommend checking out Natalie Diaz, especially When my Brother was an Aztec which has my favourite poem of all time, I Watch Her Eat The Apple.
Stunning video Chloe!! Some beginner and non native speaker friendly (poetry can be a bit tricky when English isn't your first language) poetry I really loved: Watering the Soul by Courtney Peppernell The book of Healing by Najwa Zebian The Sun and Her Flowers by rupi kaur 🩷
