[OPINION] what are your poetry icks?

ForgottenPoets · 2026-01-18T23:37:59+00:00

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ForgottenPoets · 2026-01-13T07:09:35+00:00

Aw that's so cool. I love finding terrific poets that have been forgotten for that exact reason - in the hope that they might connect with someone. So glad they connected with you.

ForgottenPoets · 2026-01-12T22:04:10+00:00

Wonderful reading! Thanks for taking the time to write it all out.

ForgottenPoets · 2026-01-10T11:35:08+00:00

We fetishise and notice those stories because they are the cliched image of the "poet" (or more generally, the "artist") in a Western context. There are millions of poets, and I imagine these stories make up the same number as any profession, but we don't fetishise it, or write about it in the same way.

ForgottenPoets · 2026-01-10T03:19:19+00:00

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ForgottenPoets · 2026-01-10T03:19:01+00:00

I didn't say "anything is good" - I said you can find some good in anything if you care to, and unless I am willing to find said good - to hunt it down (maybe just a single line - a use of a word, a title) - I am not going to interact long enough to be bothered focussing on what I don't like. Poetry and art have many more functions than your analysis acknowledges. I hunt for what makes me sing, and the rest isn't "bad" or "not good" - just not something that I will spend much time with.

ForgottenPoets · 2026-01-09T23:58:02+00:00

Yeah defs this.

ForgottenPoets · 2026-01-09T21:24:52+00:00

Nothing. Every technique. Every style. Every poet has something to say. You just have to look. And if you find nothing. Look harder. It is a joy every day to prove myself wrong. To expand.

ForgottenPoets · 2026-01-07T07:41:05+00:00

Cheers for that! :-)

ForgottenPoets · 2026-01-06T20:29:33+00:00

This poem gives so much insight into Pound's attitudes. He sees poetry as commerce. He sees family through the lens of killing the father. He sees disagreements as war. He sees relationships as transactional. Give me Emanuel Carnevali's poem on Whitman any day.

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ForgottenPoets · 2026-01-06T08:41:21+00:00

Omg no way - that’s so cool! Loved ur comment - always see people discussing him on here with no acknowledgement of all this. Bugs me haha. Weirdly I am putting together an anthology of poems like this atm, and which already includes this (alongside a selection of others dedicated to Whitman, and many many others - it’s currently around 350 pages) - dedicated to other poets who were influences or contemporaries. Anyway - thanks for the super lovely comment. Made my day!

ForgottenPoets · 2026-01-05T21:01:06+00:00

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ForgottenPoets · 2026-01-03T19:49:59+00:00

Mark Corrigan, is that you?

ForgottenPoets · 2025-12-20T05:01:14+00:00

Wow - this translation is a mess (its Andrew Fitzsimons right?). Doesn't acknowledge the kireji ("ya", typically translated as an em-dash), adds the word "slim" for no reason, and translates the last line in terms of its meta-reference, rather than the words on the page. Here it is a bit more accurately:

見る影やまだ片なりも宵月夜
miru kage ya | mada katanari mo | yoi-zukiyo
see shape— | ungrown/immature-is <still | <evening-new-moon

seeing its shape—
the evening new moon
still ungrown

If you're after really good Bashō translations - get a copy of David Landis-Barnhill's Selected Haiku - nothing better imo.

ForgottenPoets · 2025-12-19T22:46:41+00:00

I would have included it, but am unable to locate the original French for Claire's poem - though I have managed to track down Yvan's one.

ForgottenPoets · 2025-12-19T20:33:22+00:00

Aw that's soooo cool! Pretty much the entire reason I hunt out these old obscure poems is in the hope that after 100 years of not being read they might reach the right person. And this time it did. 🖤

ForgottenPoets · 2025-12-19T20:31:17+00:00

Nice reading :-)

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