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Ep 15. Getting into poetry: 5 starting points

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This week I’m attempting to answer a listener question: How do I get into poetry?

Poems in this week’s episode:

  • Stopping by woods on a snowy evening by Robert Frost
  • One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
  • Burning Sappho by Gwen Harwood
  • Lucky by Dorothy Porter
  • praise song by Nate Marshall

    • Bonus poems (if you’ve got other ideas for starter poems, let me know!):

    • We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks
    • The Lyrebird by David Brooks
    • My Country by Dorothea McKellar
    • The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
    • Growing a Bear by Hannah Gamble

      • You can find plenty of qualified peeps ready to guide you into poetry on Coursera, edX, Poetry Foundation, iTunesU (check out Open Yale Courses to start with) and YouTube (here’s a great lecture on Eliot’s The Wasteland).

      Finally, have a browse through some of the Aussie journals publishing exciting new poems today like Cordite, Verity La and Meanjin.

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