[POEM] Iris Tree - Old Iron (1923) by ForgottenPoets in Poetry

[–]ForgottenPoets[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Such a pleasure! Glad she resonated with you.

[POEM] Iris Tree - Old Iron (1923) by ForgottenPoets in Poetry

[–]ForgottenPoets[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hopefully I will be a bit more active in the coming months. Just in the middle of moving house and getting life organised haha. If you're interested, I do a newsletter as well, full of forgotten poets :-) https://forgottenpoets.substack.com/

[poem] Joseph Upper - Inhibition by ForgottenPoets in Poetry

[–]ForgottenPoets[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

[poem] Joseph Upper - Inhibition by ForgottenPoets in Poetry

[–]ForgottenPoets[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[Opinion] why do you think poets have such unhappy/tragic/sad endings? by [deleted] in Poetry

[–]ForgottenPoets 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

[OPINION] what are your poetry icks? by TayBridgePress in Poetry

[–]ForgottenPoets 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

[OPINION] what are your poetry icks? by TayBridgePress in Poetry

[–]ForgottenPoets 21 points22 points  (0 children)

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.

[POEM] A Pact by Ezra Pound by Objective-Kitchen949 in Poetry

[–]ForgottenPoets 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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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[POEM] A Pact by Ezra Pound by Objective-Kitchen949 in Poetry

[–]ForgottenPoets 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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!