Poetry Forum

this is probably entirely irrelavent...but i read a book on Blake that Ginsberg wrote, i think it was actually taken from some lectures he gave. it was very helpful in trying to understand Blake for my exam lol. really great reading actually, i'll try and dig it up agaian and give the name of it as ...

hey i'm not pissed off! sorry if i sounded that way

obviously everyone's entitled to their own opinion.

sorry i cant ignore this i know it's an old topic but what they hey. how can you say Time out of Mind lacked energy?? ok i know it's a matter of opinion but that album is exceptional! well i think so anyway. as was its follow up in 2001, Love and Theft. and Modern Times just proves he's still got. D...

ah yes, 'I wish i was in Carrickfergus.' i don't know if that's actually about the Carrickfergus i live in. but i like to think that it is. and i'm never entirely sure if i like that poem of Carrickfergus. i don't think he liked it here lol. and i do. but Meeting Point is probably my favourite of hi...

hey, i'm at University of Ulster Coleraine. north west coast of Ireland. whereabouts are you? i know, dissertations aren't easy lol. i really have no idea what i'm doing. good luck with yours though! i'd quite like to study war poets actually. that or something to do with postcolonial Ireland. we'll...

i'm sure i'll be thanking him for it!

i've heard of that book, never read it though, might have a look out for it. currently wading my way through Aids to Reflection and collections of his letters. fun stuff lol. ah i do love him though.

anyways i'll c ya around!

i am indeed so far. it's distracting me from my coursework so i love it! think i'll mostly be a reader of the work here rather than contribute any myself. i must say i haven't even tried to write anything for about two years. apart from a one-off thing for a magazine. anyways i'll c ya around! :wink:

Meeting Point Time was away and somewhere else, There were two glasses and two chairs And two people with the one pulse (Somebody stopped the moving stairs) Time was away and somewhere else. And they were neither up nor down; The stream's music did not stop Flowing through heather, limpid brown, Al...

wine comes in at the mouth, and love comes in at the eye this is all we shall know for truth before we grow old and die i lift my glass to my mouth, i look at you and i sigh ah Willie.... ok this topic isn't so recent, but i'm guessing no one here really cares about time frame for a topic. they jus...

hey there. just thought i'd leave you a message since i'm a newbie too! lol

well hello there. this is where you do the introductions then. i just found this website yesterday. researchin an essay on Coleridge at the minute and decided to distract myself for a while and look up completely irrelevant stuff about him. like where he's buried lol. and to my delight it brought me...