A New Handful

of November poems over at "Jackdaw's."

Poetry Lists

Rob MacKenzie has posted a list of his favorite 25 poetry volumes and, in so doing, has triggered off my own compulsive listmaking urge. I'm going to do something a bit different from his list, though; I'm going to post 2 lists of 10 volumes each, one of living poets and one of (comparatively recently) dead poets. These lists identify books that I most frequently pick up to read when I want to just enjoy some well-written poetry; they also would likely be very different if compiled next month. Like Rob, I will include only 1 volume by any one individual, and the order is alphabetical by author.

I. Ten Top Living Poets' Volumes

1. Pallbearers Envying the One Who Rides, Stephen Dobyns
2. Atlantis, Mark Doty
3. The Wild Iris, Louise Gluck
4. Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996, Seamus Heaney
5. Learning Human: Selected Poems, Les Murray
6. Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems 1968-1998, Linda Pastan
7. Colors Passing Through Us, Marge Piercy
8. Firekeeper: Selected Poems, Revised and Expanded, Pattiann Rogers
9. Supernatural Love: Poems 1976-1992, Gjertrud Schnackenberg
10. Without End: New and Selected Poems, Adam Zagajewski

II. Top Ten Dead Poets' Volumes

Collected Poems 1951-1971, A. R. Ammons
The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt, Amy Clampitt
Collected Poems, Ted Hughes
Making Certain It Goes On: The Collected Poems of Richard Hugo, Richard Hugo
Intensive Care: Selected and New Poems, Miroslav Holub
Collected Poems, Donald Justice
New and Collected Poems 1931-2001, Czeslaw Milosz
Collected Poems 1920-1954, Eugenio Montale
Beyond Remembering: The Collected Poems of Al Purdy, Al Purdy
The Biggest Egg in the World, Marin Sorescu

October's Arrived at "The Jackdaw's Nest"

There's a new gathering of October poems tucked in amongst the other shiny bits over there.

New "Jackdaw's Nest"

"A Small Petting Zoo of Animal Poems for World Animal Day."