Whitechapel - Recommend Me Some Poetry

Whitechapel - Recommend Me Some Poetry Fri, 24 May 2013 19:25:49 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher Recommend Me Some Poetry http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342027#Comment_342027 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342027#Comment_342027 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:12:36 -0700 oldhat
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 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342028#Comment_342028 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:02:21 -0700 Fishelle
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(Bandcamp / Spotify) ]]> Recommend Me Some Poetry http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342038#Comment_342038 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342038#Comment_342038 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 01:42:09 -0700 Steve Toase at roane head ]]> Recommend Me Some Poetry http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342048#Comment_342048 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342048#Comment_342048 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:46:18 -0700 Mathias B 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 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342051#Comment_342051 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:17:46 -0700 Jehrot
]]> Recommend Me Some Poetry http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342052#Comment_342052 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342052#Comment_342052 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:19:35 -0700 mister hex
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 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342077#Comment_342077 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:55:09 -0700 Mathias B ]]> Recommend Me Some Poetry http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342078#Comment_342078 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342078#Comment_342078 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:41:03 -0700 chrisanthropic
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 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342082#Comment_342082 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:45:59 -0700 magnusisasillyname
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 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342083#Comment_342083 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:50:16 -0700 magnusisasillyname Recommend Me Some Poetry http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342095#Comment_342095 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342095#Comment_342095 Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:55:13 -0700 Flxzr Recommend Me Some Poetry http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342112#Comment_342112 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342112#Comment_342112 Sat, 13 Oct 2012 18:05:43 -0700 Purple Wyrm
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 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342114#Comment_342114 Sat, 13 Oct 2012 19:43:25 -0700 scs 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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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 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342143#Comment_342143 Sun, 14 Oct 2012 15:11:15 -0700 Ryan S Thomason

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 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342145#Comment_342145 Sun, 14 Oct 2012 15:25:28 -0700 Renfield
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 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342147#Comment_342147 Sun, 14 Oct 2012 16:02:37 -0700 256 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 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342156#Comment_342156 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 01:36:12 -0700 Kay Orchison 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 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10868&Focus=342191#Comment_342191 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:38:58 -0700 lucien 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.... ]]>