So firstly, sorry to everyone because I appreciate I'm asking a lot of questions, but why google when I have you experts to ask instead? I need some guidance on late half of the 20th century/Modern poets to read. I've been through collections by the "masters" as it were. I enjoyed Keats, Hardy, I think Larkin might've changed my life (but that's for another discussion) and have always loved Bukowski; but if anyone wants to chuck a few names, (not necessarily in the vain of my previous mentions) my way on this thread I would be really grateful. Who do you guys dig?
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Ha, not bad thanks @Adam Gary. So I'm waiting for the books of the above to arrive (cant be doing with Kindle for poetry) finished you book, amazing; honourable mentions for "Forgiven" and "Tonight I Light a Candle" . And now, I'm killing time with Shakespeare's Sonnets. I know you like the format, but I struggled when I tried my own so thought I'd refer back to the master for a bit of "upskilling". I can write one, I'm sure of it, I just think it's quite subject led, more than I appreciated. So yeah man, I went from your work to Shakespeare 😅
How is your literary submersion coming @Rich 😄
I've gone with Kerouac, because I love his prose, and TS Elliot for my next run of "Revision". I'll be up in the lost trying to find my copy of "The Bell Jar" at the weekend thank you both again.. @Adam Gary @Shen Friebe
@Adam Gary @Shen Friebe - thanks to you both, Man I did "The Bell Jar" at school, epic as I remember. Also, I'm so old.
Ask, ask, ask away, Rich! Don't apologise for engaging with the Cove- it's what it's here for :)
When it comes to the latter half of the 20th Century, I'd say you can't go wrong with Robert Frost (see 'Fire and Ice'), T.S Eliot, Plath, Angelou (her performance of 'Still I Rise' is quite possibly the best reading of a poem, ever. Her charisma is everything), Ginsberg ('Howl', obviously), Robert Lax ('A Question'). I think Leonard Cohen's stuff is also worth reading. Honourable mentions go to Robert Browning ('Porphyria's Lover' (Robert Browning) and Lewis Carroll ('Jabberwocky').
Hope you enjoy!
Hahaha! Don't apologies for asking questions, it's what we are here for!
Some of my modern favourites:
Jack Kerouac
John Cooper Clarke
Carol Anne Duffy
Simon Armitage