Whitechapel - Recommend Me Some Poetry 2013-05-18T05:51:07-07:00 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher Recommend Me Some Poetry http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342027#Comment_342027 2012-10-11T21:12:36-07:00 2012-10-11T22:44:27-07:00 oldhat http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=75 Any and all kinds of poetry. Classical, modern, beat, slam...whatever. What do you think is essential to read or listen to or just good? What are you in to now?
What do you think is essential to read or listen to or just good? What are you in to now?]]> Recommend Me Some Poetry http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342028#Comment_342028 2012-10-11T22:02:21-07:00 2013-05-18T05:51:06-07:00 Fishelle http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8854 I was reminded of this yesterday.
]]> Recommend Me Some Poetry http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342029#Comment_342029 2012-10-11T22:25:07-07:00 2013-05-18T05:51:06-07:00 Stoto http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=757 Not sure if it's essential, but I could read Charles Bukowski's poetry for days. Recommend Me Some Poetry http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342035#Comment_342035 2012-10-12T00:56:07-07:00 2013-05-18T05:51:06-07:00 taphead http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2284 Tin Hat's album of e.e. cummings' poems is a wonderful thing. (Bandcamp / Spotify)
(Bandcamp / Spotify)]]> Recommend Me Some Poetry http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342038#Comment_342038 2012-10-12T01:42:09-07:00 2013-05-18T05:51:06-07:00 Steve Toase http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10253 at roane head at roane head]]> Recommend Me Some Poetry http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342048#Comment_342048 2012-10-12T04:46:18-07:00 2013-05-18T05:51:06-07:00 Mathias B http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2162 If you come across decent translations, I highly recommend checking out these Swedish poets: Edith Södergran Aase Berg Werner Aspenström Tomas Tranströmer (should be easy to find, post-Nobel ... Edith Södergran
Aase Berg
Werner Aspenström
Tomas Tranströmer (should be easy to find, post-Nobel prize)
Karin Boye

In the English language, I always find myself returning to Emily Dickinson, William Blake and Coleridge.]]> Recommend Me Some Poetry http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342051#Comment_342051 2012-10-12T06:17:46-07:00 2013-05-18T05:51:06-07:00 Jehrot http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1904 Tom Waits reads "The Laughing Heart" by Charles Bukowski.
]]> Recommend Me Some Poetry http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342052#Comment_342052 2012-10-12T06:19:35-07:00 2013-05-18T05:51:06-07:00 mister hex http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4411 Transtromer. More than meets the eye. Simon Armitage, specifically his first collection KID is fantastic. Wendy Cope's MAKING COCOA FOR KINGSLEY AMIS is also fantastic. Another modern poet to ...
Simon Armitage, specifically his first collection KID is fantastic.
Wendy Cope's MAKING COCOA FOR KINGSLEY AMIS is also fantastic.
Another modern poet to watch is Ken Babstock. (He's Canadian and a friend of mine, actually.)
Ooh, and James Tate!]]> Recommend Me Some Poetry http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342077#Comment_342077 2012-10-12T16:55:09-07:00 2013-05-18T05:51:06-07:00 Mathias B http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2162 ]]> Recommend Me Some Poetry http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342078#Comment_342078 2012-10-12T17:41:03-07:00 2013-05-18T05:51:06-07:00 chrisanthropic http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6373 I've always been partial to the Romantics - Byron, Keates, and Shelley. One of my all time favorites is the fucking creepy "Porphyria's Lover" by Browning.
One of my all time favorites is the fucking creepy "Porphyria's Lover" by Browning.]]> Recommend Me Some Poetry http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342082#Comment_342082 2012-10-12T20:45:59-07:00 2013-05-18T05:51:06-07:00 magnusisasillyname http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10358 Great thread. :) Some of my favourites: I should stop now... :) Enjoy!
Some of my favourites:











I should stop now... :) Enjoy!]]> Recommend Me Some Poetry http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342083#Comment_342083 2012-10-12T20:50:16-07:00 2013-05-18T05:51:06-07:00 magnusisasillyname http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10358 @Jehrot - Thanks for the Bukowski + Waits double threat, that was awesome. :) Recommend Me Some Poetry http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342095#Comment_342095 2012-10-13T09:55:13-07:00 2013-05-18T05:51:06-07:00 Flxzr http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=760 William Topaz McGonagall, of course. Recommend Me Some Poetry http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342112#Comment_342112 2012-10-13T18:05:43-07:00 2013-05-18T05:51:06-07:00 Purple Wyrm http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6726 How about the WWI poets? Owen and Sassoon in particular Dulce et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen Counter-Attack and Other Poems - Siegfried Sassoon And if that's all too depressing I second ...
Dulce et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen
Counter-Attack and Other Poems - Siegfried Sassoon

And if that's all too depressing I second McGonagall - possibly the only ever man to make a railway disaster hilarious...

The Tay Bridge Disaster - Read by Billy Connolly]]> Recommend Me Some Poetry http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342114#Comment_342114 2012-10-13T19:43:25-07:00 2013-05-18T05:51:07-07:00 scs http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7988 I didn't really get Keats' Ode On A Grecian Urn until I was forty; how a guy in his 20s could have written that is beyond me. Kipling in the middle of his career was just fucking awesome. When ... Ode On A Grecian Urn until I was forty; how a guy in his 20s could have written that is beyond me.

Kipling in the middle of his career was just fucking awesome.
When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried,
When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died,
We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it -- lie down for an aeon or two,
Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew.

And those that were good shall be happy; they shall sit in a golden chair;
They shall splash at a ten-league canvas with brushes of comets' hair.
They shall find real saints to draw from -- Magdalene, Peter, and Paul;
They shall work for an age at a sitting and never be tired at all!

And only The Master shall praise us, and only The Master shall blame;
Andd no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame,
But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,
Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They are!
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]]> Recommend Me Some Poetry http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342126#Comment_342126 2012-10-14T03:00:00-07:00 2013-05-18T05:51:07-07:00 texture http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1472 @magnus - apologies for the Grist repost, missed that vid in your post :) Recommend Me Some Poetry http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342130#Comment_342130 2012-10-14T05:16:35-07:00 2012-10-14T05:17:22-07:00 Kay Orchison http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10078 Autoethnographic, by Michael Brennan. It's a wild ride, like being dragged face down through a fairground by a bonobo while Tom Waits follows after you yelling less-than-helpful suggestions through a ... Autoethnographic, by Michael Brennan. It's a wild ride, like being dragged face down through a fairground by a bonobo while Tom Waits follows after you yelling less-than-helpful suggestions through a megaphone. It's hilarious. It's disturbing. It's heartbreaking. It's got a nice cover. Which, incidentally, is my artwork.

I've been collaborating with Mr Brennan for decades. He's the strongest voice of my generation in Australian poetry, and this is the best work he's done to date. He also runs Vagabond Press, for whom I've been doing handmade limited edition cover art since 1999. The Press site's nearly finished, and we've got five new books out.

Great thread guys!]]> Recommend Me Some Poetry http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342143#Comment_342143 2012-10-14T15:11:15-07:00 2013-05-18T05:51:07-07:00 Ryan S Thomason http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5360 Edwin Morgan, 'Strawberries' and a bit more e.e. cummings and a bit of John Donne never hurt either


and a bit more e.e. cummings



and a bit of John Donne never hurt either]]> Recommend Me Some Poetry http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342145#Comment_342145 2012-10-14T15:25:28-07:00 2013-05-18T05:51:07-07:00 Renfield http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10875 first post here, thought I'd jump in with a couple goodies along those mentioned already (ee cummings , Buk and Sherman Alexie triply so, though more a fan of Alexie's prose. Contrarily Bukowski's ...
Richard Brautigan
Pablo Neruda
Octavio Paz
Sergio Badilla Castillo
Derek Walcott
Jalal Mansur Nuriddin
Srecko Kosovel
Hart Crane
Denis Johnson]]> Recommend Me Some Poetry http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342147#Comment_342147 2012-10-14T16:02:37-07:00 2013-05-18T05:51:07-07:00 256 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4827 @Renfield I came to this thread to second Charles Bukowski (Open All Night is a great career-spanning collection) and to denigrate his fiction, which I do not enjoy, and also to suggest Richard ... Synchronicity!

I also second Ranier Maria Rilke, as suggested above, if only so that you can say you've read Rilke.

Since I've been pipped to the post on the above, I add that you should read:
Jorge Luis Borges: His poetry is different from, but definitely as brilliant as, the fiction which may be more familiar to WC.
Charles Baudelaire: Because life is incomplete until you have.
Arthur Rimbaud: Je suis caché et je ne le suis pas. C'est le feu qui se relève avec son damné.]]> Recommend Me Some Poetry http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342156#Comment_342156 2012-10-15T01:36:12-07:00 2013-05-18T05:51:07-07:00 Kay Orchison http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10078 OK the new Vagabond site is up. We're a very small Australian poetry publisher and we're deep in debt after the recent release of five new books, so if you like poetry, please order something from us! Vagabond site is up. We're a very small Australian poetry publisher and we're deep in debt after the recent release of five new books, so if you like poetry, please order something from us!]]> Recommend Me Some Poetry http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342191#Comment_342191 2012-10-15T17:38:58-07:00 2013-05-18T05:51:07-07:00 lucien http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7742 eghh.... rilke because he's excellent saul williams slam stuff before he became niggy tardust blake because he's the first comic book poet, and because he's better than all of us michaelangelo ... rilke because he's excellent
saul williams slam stuff before he became niggy tardust
blake because he's the first comic book poet, and because he's better than all of us
michaelangelo because his poetry is that of a catholic rumi
georges bataille because it ties together his attempts at novels and philosophy
kenneth patchen because he massacres all of the beat era american poets with his prodigious cock made of mad love and also does comic book poems
nick tosches because he is the man
most of the poets from the nuyorican cafe collection which was one of the places where slam poetry started up in new york and because there's a pretty damn good selection of street level stuff from a variety of late last century perspectives in it
my ol' drinkin' buddy bojan louis, because he is the man
michael gira because he writes better than most poets
and all the other nerudas, brautigans, baudelaires, poes that everyone flogs when it comes to poims....]]>