A challenge indeed, to read a poetry book a day throughout August!
It’s only now in preparing this list that I’ll see if I reached 31 books. Included here are several anthologies of poetry and the very poetic novel, Baudelaire’s Fractal. I’ve also read books that I had started earlier, a couple that I reread, and several that I have not yet finished! Some I’d been meaning to read forever. There’s always #SealeySeptember!
How to group the list? Some are from my own collection; some, gifts from friends. Many others arrived from the Library. The books came in clusters: Canadian; writers of colour, feminist, contemporary. I decided to go alphabetically. I didn’t have time to include comments or quotes, though a running commentary is ongoing in my head. Pals, if I haven’t included you here, are you in my blog for National Poetry Month? Check out https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2020/04/02/reading-and-recommending-poems-for-national-poetry-month-2020/.
Here’s the list:
- bill bissett, Air 10-11-12
- Billy-Ray Belcourt: NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
- Di Brandt, Glitter & Fall
- Ariane Blackman, The River Doesn’t Stop
- Allan Briesmaster, River Neither
- Jillian Christmas, the gospel of breaking
- Margaret Christakos, charger
- Tom Cull, Bad Animals
- Ellen Jaffe, Skinny-Dipping with the Muse
- Patricia Keeney, First Woman
- John B. Lee, The Half-Way Tree
- D.A. Lockhart, Devil in the Woods
- Alice Major, Welcome to the Anthropocene
- Daphne Marlatt, Seven Glass Bowls
- Susan McCaslin, Painter, Poet, Mountain: After Cézanne
- Susan McMaster, Haunt
- Bruce Meyer, McLuhan’s Canary
- Stephen Morrissey, A Poet’s Journey: on poetry and what it means to be a poet
- Colin Morton, Coastlines of the Archipelago
- Miguel Neneve, En los Caminos de la Miradas
- Catherine Owen, Riven
- Harold Rhenisch, Winging Home: a palette of birds
- Canisia Lubrin, The Dyzgraph*st
- Jay MillAr, The Ghosts of Jay MillAr
- Joni Mitchell, Morning Glory On the Vine
- Lisa Robertson, Baudelaire Fractals
- Sharon Thesen, The Receiver
- Phyllis Webb, Peacock Blue
Anthologies
29. Kim Maltman, editor. The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2018
30. Nyla Matuk, Resisting Canada: an anthology of poetry with an Introduction by Nyla Matuk
31. Adam Sol, How a poem moves: a field guide for readers of poetry
Thanks for such an inspiring initiative, Nicole Sealey! @Nic_Sealey
#31outof31 #TheSealeyChallenge #sealeychallenge #poetry #31Books31Days #31BooksInAugust
WHEW~! See you in September!
Penn Kemp
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