Reviews for Poetry my pleasure

The average rating for Poetry my pleasure based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-10-16 00:00:00 Leo Curtis This will bring back fond memories of primary school - or so I'm told. I must be one of a handful of Britons who grew up knowing Hughes solely for How the Whale Became. I've caught up on my reading since then. The book, at first glance, seems like the kind of thing a spotty wannabe might take out the local library: a book printed grubby and well-fingered, underlined and scrawled over. Big mistake. Huge. I wish someone had given me this wondrous parcel of poems as a child: 'Badger' by John Clare, 'The Marvel' by Keith Douglas, and other gems by writers as diverse as Emily Dickinson, George Mackay Brown, Edward Thomas and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Hughes' notes in the section titled 'Capturing Animals' are wonderful. ('The minute you flinch, and take your mind off this thing, and begin to look at the words and worry about them...then your worry goes into them and they set about killing each other.')

Review # 2 was written on 2020-08-10 00:00:00 Mark Ballard College reads: I only read chapters/sections relevant to my studies, hence the dnf