Poetry Readers Challenge discussion

Read (often more than once)

ee cummings collected works
Edgar Allan Poe- complete poetical works
Sylvia Plath- Ariel
Robert Frost- large collection
EB Browning collected poems vol 1
TS Elliot- collected works

To read/ complete

Collected works of John Donne
Collected works of WB Yeats
Collected works of John Keats
Collected works of Dylan Thomas
Walt Whitman- leaves of grass
Mary Oliver- west wind
Sylvia Plath
Frank o' Hara
Jessie Smith- organic furniture cellar
Gardening secrets of the dead

You did it! Looking forward to reading some of your reviews, Lisa.

Currently reading:

Aniel Botha Pirouette

Completed:
1) Aniel Botha- Pirouette
Review written 21/12/13

2) Jenna Le- Six Rivers
3) Boris Pasternak- Zhivago's Poems

Reviews written 21/12/13

4) Expressions of Humanity- Maja Dezulovic
Review written 21/12/13

5) ee cummings reviewed 21/12/13

6) Robert Frost- the large collection
7) the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe

I've actually read a fair amount of poetry this year, I doubt it's 20 books though. I decided to catch up on my reviews before the year is over.

One of the interesting things about this challenge is seeing just how difficult (and fun) it can be to read 20 books of poetry--not to mention how difficult (and enlightening) it can be to write reviews for each one. I think most of our attrition in this group is from people deciding they just don't have the time to write the reviews.

I think I read then don't review for fear that my review will not do the poem justice.

8) Ingrid Jonker- Ontvlugting (Escape)
9) Sylvia Plath- Ariel

Lisa wrote: "I think I read then don't review for fear that my review will not do the poem justice."

I think a lot of us worry about that and I tend only to post reviews of poetry collections that I've liked and end up not writing about the ones that didn't appeal. Anyway good to have you in the group Lisa.

10) Ingrid Jonker- Rook en Okker
11) Ingrid Jonker- Kantelson

Jen, you may be correct. I enjoy writing reviews, but being a Type A, I chastise myself when it takes me some time to get to them.

12) Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
13) Na die Somer (After the Summer)- Ingrid Jonker
14) West Wind- Mary Oliver

15) Collected Works- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
16) Collected Works- Anne Bronte

Due to my finals, I am going to become a less regular participant.
This is where I leave 2013

Cheers all

An excellent showing, Lisa. Some impressive reviewing over the past week. Best of luck with your exams!

All the best with your finals.

Thanks guys. It's March and May.
Blergh