Or women too if you know what your husband or male relatives enjoy. I’m in the mood for some poetry but the only poetry book i’ve ever read is “Grief Is the Thing with Feathers”.
The reason i’m asking for ‘Men’s recommendations’ is because a lot of poetry book just doesnt vibe with me at all and at the same time they seem very popular among women so I’m interested in some recommendations from the lads.
by Limp_Sleep_720
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I really enjoy David Whyte – David Whyte Essentials is a good starter book for him. Probably most similar to Wendell Berry and Mary Oliver.
Sounds like you might like Philip Larkin or Ted Hughes.
Alden Nowlan
Charles Bukowski
E.E. Cummings
D. H. Lawrence
William S. Burroughs
Samuel Butler
I like William Carlos Williams’ The Red Wheelbarrow and Other Poems
Ness by Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood
Highly recommend alive in the memory of stars by ifeanyi Ogbo. Gorgeous poetry by an African male writer
The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling. From If, to A Legend of Truth, to The Gods of the Copybook Headings. If you want wisdom, read Kipling.
The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart selected by Robert Bly and others.
Anything by Philip Levine.
Palgrave’s golden treasury is A must.
Morning in the Burned House by Margaret Atwood
I’m a man and loved that collection
Robert Service. Start with Best Of and get hooked!
Langston Hughes, William Carlos Williams, Elizabeth Bishop, Theodore Roethke