Gratuitous Bits of Poetry

Excerpts from some of my favourite collections of poetry

Actually I have a vision of eventually setting this up so that it will be a kind of garden of hypertext with the poems linked by selected words / emotions / themes. However as with many of my web projects, this is developing incredibly slowly. Meanwhile, observe the conventional set-up:

Index of Authors

  • Milton Acorn [often even my forgiveness no less fierce]
  • Margaret Atwood [Free fall grief at the center A photograph A hook groping for summer]
  • W. H. Auden [already adroit Anxiety receives them like a grand hotel equal affection life in its natural color]
  • Dionne Brand [the heart sinks what would I want with this sentence hell would break loose community service no snow in December]
  • Di Brandt [death is a good argument trying to climb to you here]
  • Chrystos [too many brains silver turtle]
  • Lorna Crozier [crystal skull]
  • T. S. Eliot [crisis]
  • Paulette Jiles [You are right to live in fear]
  • Rudyard Kipling [traced in dusk and fire]
  • Dorothy Livesay [traffic lights]
  • Audre Lorde [dropped into the inevitable]
  • John Masefield [a point of gloss sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine]
  • Michael Ondaatje [against the ink accidentally stapled immaculate moment the intricate never midnight breathing lost my knife]
  • Sylvia Plath[an art, like everything else]
  • Adrienne Rich [everything you've loved Tattered Kaddish]
  • Sonia Sanchez [wear the day]
  • Ntozake Shange [give me yr tongue fiercely]
  • Bronwen Wallace [odour of complaint the obvious, unavoidable weight a relocation]
  • Walt Whitman [hurrahs]
  • Marg Yeo [beneath the blood]
  • The Blasted Pine [DEEP APPLE PIE / TARTE AU POMMES PROFONDES]

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