I don't blog and I don't like blogging and I have no idea how blogs function (e.g. what are 'tags') so someone please tell me if I'm doing something wrong!
I do, however, love poetry. If you have never had to chance to sit down with a good poetry book and really enjoy it, I'd like to recommend picking up any anthology by Daisy Goodwin. My favourites are 101 poems to last a lifetime, but any of her collections are fantastic - a mix of canonical and contemporary poems and suitable for daily consumption. I believe that poetry books are great to curl up with and reading them does not necessarily entail a PC session (ugh)!
I've chosen my 10 poems based on works which I think are accessible and truly enjoyable and I hope you find them so! I've left of alot of the older works simply because I don't find them the best works to teach from, or the most engaging reads! Although I love some Shakespeare, Keats, Swift, Pope etc (and I hope you guys put some of that up) I also struggle with trying to teach those to my students!
Huixin xx
PS After my posts I realise there are so many others I want to recommend so here they go! Rd them if you have the time!
Funeral Blues by W H Auden (for those in mourning)
Ending by Gavin Ewart (hilarious anti sonnet)
I'm Really Very Fond by Alice Walker (for those in slightly apathetic relationships)
Bloody Men are like Bloody Buses by Wendy Cope (read anything by her for a laugh, this one for women deciding between men)
The End of Love should be a Big Event by Sophie Hannah
Do not go gentle into that Good Night by Dylan Thomas
To women as far as I'm concerned by D H Lawrence (good for men!)
Connoisseuse of Slugs by Sharon Olds (lovely erotic poetry really well written, this one about a certain part of the male anatomy)
A Wish for my Children by Evangeline Paterson
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
This is just to say by William Carlos Williams (a poem out of prose)
Not Waving but Drowning by Stevie Smith
Remember Me by Christina Rosetti
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