Poetry Forum

Thank you for posting her poems. Previously, the only Judith I had known about and read was Australian Judith Wright, who died in 2000. But now you have introduced me to a new poet. I will look into her work.

This is a great topic you started.Here's my contributing post. Literary influences(they are long and varied): Shakespeare,Milton,Dante,Spenser,Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley,Mary Wollstonecraft,William Godwin,John Keats,Byron, S.T Coleridge,Wordsworth,Christina Rossetti,Emily Dickenson,Bronte...

Les Murray is currently the leading Australian poet whose name would be most known in the public conscience.Australia has less of a history of poetic excellence as we are still a young country,but the poet most familar to Australians today is probably Banjo Patterson(1864-1941) His song "Waltzi...

I just read these posts about poets of film and was really interested as I was just thinking about whether there were any films about poetic figures which were especially brilliant.I can't really recall any outstanding film about real poets but have heard about ones featuring fictional poets or char...

...to join the forum.Anyway I don't know where you all are from,but I'm from Australia(the land down under).Where is everyone else from? It would be great if someone could reply and tell me a little about this site and when it was developed as I've just come across it almost by accident after I was ...