New

6 February 2024

Prose poetry is a new venture for me. I have two poems in this anthology: https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/masculinity-an-anthology-of-modern-voices

1 February 2024

The Finding Poetry book club is three years old this month. The poster that my daughter Maddy made will serve as a birthday card.

Here is the complete list of books we have discussed, including this month’s, which is still to come.

Billy Collins, ‘Taking off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes’

Kay Ryan, ‘Odd Blocks’

Edwin Morgan, ‘Centenary Selected Poems’

Kim Addonizio, ‘Wild Nights’

Rebecca Elson, ‘A Responsibility to Awe’

Jean Sprackland, ‘Sleeping Keys’

Jeffrey Harrison, ‘The Names ofm Things’

Meg Peacocke, ‘The Long Habit of Living’

Terrance Hayes, ‘American Sonnets for my Once and Future Assassin’

Beatrice Garland ‘The Invention of Fireworks’

Michael Laskey, ‘The Man Alone’

Jane Clarke, ‘The River’

Hannah Sullivan, ‘Three Poems’

Christopher Reid, ‘The Late Sun’

Norman MacCaig, ‘The Many Days’

Helena Nelson, ‘Pearls’

Danez Smith, ‘Don’t Call Us Dead’

Vicki Feaver, ‘I Want! I Want!’

Thomas Lux, ‘Selected Poems’

Don Paterson, ‘Rain’

William Matthews, from Poetry Foundation website

A.E. Stallings, ‘This Afterlife’

Ada Limón, ‘The Carrying’

Katha Pollitt, ‘The Mind-Body Problem’

Tony Hoagland, ‘Application for Release from the Dream’

Ruth Wiggins, ‘The Lost Book of Barkynge’

Tiffany Atkinson, ‘Lumen’

Grevel Lindop, ‘Selected Poems’

Peter Sansom, ‘Lanyard’

Colette Bryce, ‘Self Portrait in the Dark’

Liz Berry, ‘The Republic of Motherhood’

James Tate, ‘Hell, I Love Everybody’