Write Your Heartache

Today I look at the confessional poetic. After providing some historical, literary & philosophical context, I share some of my own poetry that is informed by this engaging, dramatic & revealing voice.
*BOOKS REFERRED TO:
*Robert Lowell, 'Collected Poems', (Faber)
*Denise Levertov, 'New Selected Poems', (Bloodaxe Books)
*W.D. Snodgrass, 'Not For Specialists: New & Selected Poems', (Waywiser)
*Sylvia Plath, 'Collected Poems', (Faber)
*Sylvia Plath, 'The Bell Jar', (The Folio Society)
*Anne Sexton, 'Selected Poems', (Mariner Books)
*John Berryman, 'Collected Poems: 1937-1971', (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
*Phillip Hall, 'Cactus', (Recent Work Press, 2021)
*POEMS FROM 'CACTUS' THAT ARE SHARED:
*'Bacchus in Ruins'
*'Hymns of Thanksgiving at the Existentialist Café'
*'Unforgivable'
*'Sulky'
*'Gongoozler's Lament'
*'One-legged Dog'
*'Dark Matter'
*'A Valetudinarian's 'Crisis' in a Time of COVID 19'
*'Song of Songs'
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