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#TBR: This is next on my list and I'm so excited to read it. @AlexMay and I had been talking this morning about literature and I talked about the reasons why I love poetry. Later on, when he came back from town, he gave me these lovely gifts! The Forward Book of Poetry 2017 full of the best work of the last year, and a beautiful notebook and pen for me to write my own. He's very sweet. He gets 10/10.

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Grace Wells - Otter

Full poem here (if you scroll down a bit)
http://www.strokestownpoetry.org/poem-of-the-month/

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rain - Katharine Towers
https://www.artsderbyshire.org.uk/find_artist/articles/contemporary_artists/writ...

Seriously! One sunny (freezing!) day in January and I'm hunting out rain poems all over the show. But this is beautiful - the woollen comfort of dusk, and the iron and purple of evening 🌧🌫🌳💦🌧

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Half a surreal one today - full text isn't online - but I have lovely images of bacteria, baseball and little green Waitrose tokens going round in my head now.

Kathlyn Maris
It was discovered that gut bacteria were responsible
for human dreams...

https://granta.com/it-was-discovered-that-gut-bacteria-were-responsible/

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(Can you tell it's a very Monday at work today 😬)

The Radio - Leontia Flynn
http://www.poetryireland.ie/publications/poetry-ireland-review/online-archive/vi...

Motherhood during the Troubles. The child's view, though, reminded me of growing up at the same time in rural Devon - the radio downstairs, bacon cooking, car lights passing the curtains, and the fear of all things Public Information Film.

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I'm going to be joining in with #litsypoetry365, trying to read a little poetry every day. To begin I'm still working through the Forward 2017 book - I loved today's, which is told from the pov of William Blake's wife, and is about the power of art against hate. I think. http://www.forwardartsfoundation.org/poetry/from-joy/

Thanks for the challenge

from Brave - Harry Giles.

Also, I'm withdrawing all previous grumpiness about poetry collections. Currently more are Awesome than not.

And the previous poem, Upstairs: 😢

Ian Duhig - Bridled Vows ⬆️

Poetry collections are difficult! I guess I've just started to read more poetry this year, so I'm going on very little, but books by a single author give you more of a chance to 'get it' - their voice, their themes, their pace, the whole thing.

This, I'm not sure. Liking odd poems, but as a whole... I'm not really sure what to do with it. Maybe this is why I've hardly read poetry in the past 🤔

Help?