Want to start reading modern poetry?
By The Bookery
Want to start reading modern poetry?
By The Bookery
Here's some great, accessible poets to get you into modern poetry.
Tender Spot: Selected Poems
Naomi Shihab Nye
£12.99 £12.34Seems to effortlessly write about, among other things, growing up and cultural difference in a way that aims to bring people together. Uplifting and life-affirming. Hear here interviewed on the 'On Being' podcast here: https://onbeing.org/programs/naomi-shihab-nye-your-life-is-a-poem-mar2018/
Dart
Alice Oswald
£14.99 £14.24The river Dart is quite near our shop in Crediton, and this portrait of the river eddies and swirls, haunts and beguiles.
The Air Year
Caroline Bird
£9.99 £9.49Winner of the 2020 Forward Prize, each poem in this collection takes you into an imaginative world unto itself. See Caroline discussing the beauty of the blank page for the British Library here: https://www.bl.uk/childrens-books/videos/bird-blank-page
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Lemn Sissay
£9.99 £9.49If considered as a product of a traumatic childhood, displacement and abuse in the care system, Lemn Sissay's poetry seems extraordinary in its optimism and love for life. Look closely though and the depth is there too.
The Lost Spells: An enchanting, beautiful book for lovers of the natural world
Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris
£14.99 £14.24
Poems of the Decade: An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry
Forward Arts Foundation
£9.99 £9.49If you want an anthology rather than a single poet, try one published by the Forward Arts Foundation, who showcase new poems and poets.