name association game

DA: Ah, I see. AM: "In Spite of War"... Quirky war poem. MMcW: "Guyanese writer and educator." Enjoyed the fishing analogy for the poetic process.

Mary Karr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Karr

https://alisonmcghee.com/2016/03/26/...y-mary-karr-2/

MK- Poem: Aai!!


Kevin Crossley Holland
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/ke...ossley-holland

http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...y-staithe.html

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/grain-things

KCH: English poet; "Crossley-Holland's language is also steeped in Anglo-Saxon influences, particularly evident in the rich patterns of alliteration and assonance which recall the strongly accented rhythms of the period's poetry. Above all, Crossley-Holland's preference for a pared-down vocabulary connects his work to the early origins of the English language: as he says in 'Translation Workshop: Grit and Blood', "I want earth-words/tough roots". His poem Dusk, Burnham Overy Staithe simple yet moving. The Grain of Things: "ruckled pomegranate" - very descriptive; a delightful poem. I would have chosen more but the website discourages copying for pasting.

Hazel Hall

(the "Emily Dickinson of Oregon")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_Hall

http://alexsheremet.com/review-3-poems-hazel-hall/

KCH-One more poem: http://www.kevincrossley-holland.com/poetry.html
HH-"Her poems are usually too ‘small,’ both in subject and accomplishment, to ever be called visionary, in the deeper sense, but they do have a kind of small-v vision, a way of looking at the world that, when compounded over time, is uniquely Hall’s." She has the "miopic vision" which Brazilian critic Gilda de Mello e Souza described as the typical feminine perspective of the women that were confined to the four walls of her home, before they started to work outside their homes. HH was confined to her home because of her paralysis. Her associations are certainly original. Personified stitches:"Stitches running up a seam/Are not like feet beside a stream,/And the thread that swishes after/Is not at all like human laughter." A woman dissolving into rain? "What stirred in my pulse now sighs/In the long sigh of the rain;/What was restlessness will rain/Against some woman’s windowpane/And make a woman close her eyes."

Helen Dunmore

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/helen-dunmore

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/city-lilacs

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ontentId=42214

KCH: SEA DEW... enchanting in its simplicity; a place I'd like to be. HH: Very nice analysis and review. HD: Recently passed on (June 5, 2017) since last we visited her in December of last year. https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...-birdcage-walk (Litany - an accurate portrayal of the aged; a not so tedious list. City lilac - I read this eerily to Enya's "Sancta Maria"; she had a good intuition of the hidden city.

Deborah Digges

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Digges

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...esper-sparrows

http://www.raintaxi.com/setting-fire...eborah-digges/

Beautiful video (Sancta Maria). HD- Unvoluntary revisitation, though no much harm done as the poems probably are different. Good article with beautiful pictures of her. Seems she is most remembered as a novelist.

DD-Her poetry combines harsher and softer images. Influence of her father´s profession (Thought first she was a doctor herself the hospital images are very strong)Enjoyed the review.

Denis Glover
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Glover

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/child

http://nzpoems.blogspot.com.br/2011/...is-glover.html

DG: New Zealand poet and publisher. For a Child is a sweet little poem.The refrain "Quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle" of the poem "The Magpies" (1941), imitating the sound of the Australian magpie, is one of the most famous lines in New Zealand poetry.

Georgia Douglas Johnson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Douglas_Johnson

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...17/common-dust

GDJ-Loved her poems. Simple and to the point.

Quote:

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The Heart of a Woman
Georgia Douglas Johnson
The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn,
As a lone bird, soft winging, so restlessly on,
Afar o’er life’s turrets and vales does it roam
In the wake of those echoes the heart calls home.
The heart of a woman falls back with the night,
And enters some alien cage in its plight,
And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars
While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.

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Jonathan Edwards
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/jonathan-edwards

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/nun-bicycle

https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/...s#.WW6-z6n790x

JE: Welsh poet; "possesses an ear for pop culture and a talent for striking, surprising imagery, which often occur together against the unassuming backdrops of ‘everyday life’ – the supermarkets, cafes and airport vistas of 21st century Britain – and make comparisons with poets like Simon Armitage or Billy Collins inevitable and justified." Nun on a Bicycle: L3 and L16 in opposition, an otherwise light poem. The 5-poems offered next are of the everyday mixed with humor and malice.

Edwina Hume Fallis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwina_Hume_Fallis

http://www.daughterofhope.com/2012/0...na-fallis.html

EHF-Teacher and seller of toys.

Fay Zwicky
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/fay-zwicky

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/witnesses

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ks-forgiveness

FZ: "was widely acknowledged and awarded as one of Australia's most important and exhilarating poets". The Witnesses is a fun take on Magpies. The Poet Asks Forgiveness, an apology for unwritten poems... delightful: "forgive me the colours they might have worn"

zakia henderson brown

https://www.centerforthehumanities.o...enderson-brown

http://nationalpoetrymonth.tumblr.co...enderson-brown

ZHB-Contemporaneous poet, hospital recollections, the frailties of being alive.


Bernadine Evaristo
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/bernardine-evaristo

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/ep...ro-brazil-1995

BE: English poet; "Her writing is characterised by experimentation, ranging in genre through poetry, fiction, verse-novels, drama and literary criticism, and typically challenges the myths around various Afro-diasporic histories and identities." Epilogue - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1995 is a wonderful prose poem of searching for her roots and identity; I can feel her yearning.

Eva Gore Booth

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/eva-gore-booth

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...-56d226720a908

EGB- Irish poet, woman rights activist, influence of Yeats."Largely associated with the Celtic revival that swept over her homeland at the turn of the twentieth century[...]In addition to being a writer, Gore-Booth was also a political activist." The Dreamer- Beautiful and terrible.


Billy Childish
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/billy-childish

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/i-...ge-hero-hunger

https://www.artsy.net/artist/billy-childish

BC: English poet and artist; "his work is frequently at odds with the concerns of the mainstream literary and art worlds." I AM THE STRANGE HERO OF HUNGER an incredible poem. His paintings are alive in ways that almost defy description.

Charlotte Mew

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/charlotte-mew

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-the-fields/