https://olivermooney.com/categories/poetry/ en Fri, 20 Mar 2020 19:54:12 +0100 https://olivermooney.com/2020/03/20/latest-daybook-entry.html Fri, 20 Mar 2020 19:54:12 +0100 http://OliverM.micro.blog/2020/03/20/latest-daybook-entry.html <p>Latest Daybook entry is another Wallace Stephens, <em><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45236/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-a-blackbird">Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird</a></em>.</p> https://olivermooney.com/2020/03/10/next-entry-to.html Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:43:00 +0100 http://OliverM.micro.blog/2020/03/10/next-entry-to.html <p>Next entry to the daybook: Wallace Stephens&rsquo;s <em><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43431/the-idea-of-order-at-key-west">The Idea of Order at Key West</a></em>. I loved this when I first read it over 20 years ago at UCD, and still do. It&rsquo;s so satisfying to recite aloud.</p> https://olivermooney.com/2020/03/08/following-the-the.html Sun, 08 Mar 2020 12:23:00 +0100 http://OliverM.micro.blog/2020/03/08/following-the-the.html <p>Following the the example of Robert Pinsky&rsquo;s <em><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/18378020-singing-school">Singing School</a></em>, I&rsquo;ve started my own daybook, writing out the set of poems that appeal to me as I encounter them. First up: <em><a href="https://markmcbride.wordpress.com/2015/06/28/tiara-by-mark-doty/">Tiara</a></em>, by Mark Doty.</p>