How many of you (if any) have read any poetry published in the last 50 years?

[redyelruc]

If you have, who?

What are your thoughts on the author? the collection you read?

I'm trying to expand my poetic horizons and have been reading a lot of modern poetry recently. I'd love to hear from anybody who has any thoughts or recommendations.

[rambleON]

http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=8

post some of your work here. these guys can be brutal.

[redyelruc]

http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=8

post some of your work here. these guys can be brutal.
I know. I've been a member for around a year now and had some of my stuff ripped to shreds. That place is great. If you are serious about improving your poetry, you should check out their sub-forum called the Blurbs of Wisdom (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/forumdisplay.php?f=34), there is a wealth of information there for all aspiring poets.

But a word of warning to anybody who's tempted to post there, lurk for a week or two, to see what's expected and get a feel for the place.

If you think that somebody telling you your writing is crap is a personal insult, don't bother going.

[robin banks]

Siegfried Sassoon.

His wet white face and miserable eyes
Brought nurses to him more than groans and sighs:
But hoarse and low and rapid rose and fell
His troubled voice: he did the business well.

The ward grew dark; but he was still complaining
And calling out for ‘Dickie’. ‘Curse the Wood!
‘It’s time to go. O Christ, and what’s the good?
‘We’ll never take it, and it’s always raining.’

I wondered where he’d been; then heard him shout,
‘They snipe like hell! O Dickie, don’t go out...
I fell asleep ... Next morning he was dead;
And some Slight Wound lay smiling on the bed.