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timmytoenail69's review against another edition
slow-paced
2.5
A few gems in here but they were hard to find among the large amount of what felt like mediocre poems. There were few poems that really grabbed me and I felt like I missed his wit and cleverness that one sees in his prose.
kjgreen's review
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
4.0
I find myself reading a lot of D H Lawrence not because it’s consistently good but because from time to time he’ll just hit you with something so powerful and profound and I won’t stop re-reading it. This, for me, was the same with his poetry, a lot of this blurred into one but there’s a good few 5 star poems buried in this.
smolbean_reads's review against another edition
4.0
Beautiful collection of poetry.
Could have done without the whole section about tortoises?
Could have done without the whole section about tortoises?
salicat's review against another edition
4.0
Just like streaks of fire on the page,in ecstasy over the natural world and sensuality. One of my favorites, recalling the story of Persephone and Hades (a small portion below):
And in Sicily, on the meadows of Enna,
She thought she had left him;
But opened around her purple anemones,
Caverns,
Little hells of colour, caves of darkness,
Hell, risen in pursuit of her; royal, sumptuous
Pit-falls...
And the opening to "The Wild Common":
The quick sparks on the gorse bushes are leaping,
Little jets of sunlight texture imitating flame;
Above them, exultant, the peewits are sweeping:
They are lords of the desolate wastes of sadness their screaming proclaim
Some of them didn't really speak to me, like his poems about mosquitoes and peaches.
But the ones that did stayed in my head like favorite songs.
And in Sicily, on the meadows of Enna,
She thought she had left him;
But opened around her purple anemones,
Caverns,
Little hells of colour, caves of darkness,
Hell, risen in pursuit of her; royal, sumptuous
Pit-falls...
And the opening to "The Wild Common":
The quick sparks on the gorse bushes are leaping,
Little jets of sunlight texture imitating flame;
Above them, exultant, the peewits are sweeping:
They are lords of the desolate wastes of sadness their screaming proclaim
Some of them didn't really speak to me, like his poems about mosquitoes and peaches.
But the ones that did stayed in my head like favorite songs.
ipb1's review
4.0
Somewhere between 1* and 5*....
But eeeh - he doesn't half have a one-track mind, that man.
But eeeh - he doesn't half have a one-track mind, that man.
levi_masuli's review against another edition
2.0
I guess this is good stuff, but not really for my liking.
vicenteesobral's review against another edition
3.0
Five star poems:
- Fish
- The rainbow
Other good poems:
- Snake
- Piano
- I wish I knew a woman
(This gorgeous old edition was found in my university's library. The collection could be better, though)
- Fish
- The rainbow
Other good poems:
- Snake
- Piano
- I wish I knew a woman
(This gorgeous old edition was found in my university's library. The collection could be better, though)