tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post5321030512514086402..comments2023-07-22T15:44:42.859+01:00Comments on More about the song - rambling with Rachel Fox: We are one familyRachel Foxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-13656725319552633842008-12-15T13:50:00.000+00:002008-12-15T13:50:00.000+00:00Thanks Liz for coming back with all that. I have h...Thanks Liz for coming back with all that. I have heard of Flynn but not Higgins (who actually sounds more my thing) but I will keep an eye out for poems by both.<BR/>xRachel Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-18822419930251969372008-12-15T11:35:00.000+00:002008-12-15T11:35:00.000+00:00Adore the Greer quotes,Rachel, must seek out that ...Adore the Greer quotes,Rachel, must seek out that book for under the tree ...; )<BR/>Just to give my tuppence worth on fav. Irish women poets at the moment - Rita Anne Higgins and Leontia Flynn would<BR/>be two that I read a lot…they each have their own distinctive way of saying things…and Rita Anne Higgins is definitely a people’s poet…love her humour and sharpness.. <BR/>Here is a poem of hers <BR/>http://www.nthposition.com/dirtydancer.php<BR/><BR/>and this is a great article on her (just in case you like the poem and want to<BR/>investigate further…but time is a bugger, I know…too many poems and time too<BR/>short.. : ) )<BR/>http://www.clemson.edu/caah/cedp/cudp/scr/articles/scr_32-1_paul.pdf<BR/><BR/>This is a Leontia poem.<BR/>http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20040328/ai_n12753003<BR/><BR/>Liz<BR/>xLizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05990807765195683301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-46133453330131865762008-12-12T17:31:00.000+00:002008-12-12T17:31:00.000+00:00Sister Rachel, only list when and if you feel like...Sister Rachel, only list when and if you feel like it. December comes with enough pressure as it is. :)<BR/><BR/>Nice post. I like Dorothy Parker simply because she didn't see the world as belonging to men, even if most of her generation did.hopehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03306622656461205674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-47345261337212970062008-12-12T15:45:00.000+00:002008-12-12T15:45:00.000+00:00After mentioning the Greer introduction in the com...After mentioning the Greer introduction in the comments here I have gone back and pasted some quotes from it at the end of the original post. They are worth reading - go take a look!<BR/>xRachel Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-10280540903712297352008-12-12T13:49:00.000+00:002008-12-12T13:49:00.000+00:00Classical music...not something I can comment on! ...Classical music...not something I can comment on! Not yet anyway.<BR/><BR/>As for Cohen and G/god, SW...I'm not a huge fan of either...but if others want to adore them that's fine with me!<BR/><BR/>xRachel Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-2742729427167700002008-12-12T12:53:00.000+00:002008-12-12T12:53:00.000+00:00I've never really got into this men-poets vs women...I've never really got into this men-poets vs women-poets thing. At least with poetry there are an increasing number of women writing poetry so that running across a female poet is nothing unusual. I wonder what the exact ratio is these days? I might suggest that there could be more women than men. <BR/><BR/>In some of the other arts this disparity hasn't been addressed. Take 'classical' composers for instance. How many female classical composers can you name? Off the top of my head I can name two before the 20th century and that's Clara Schumann, the wife of Robert Schumann (but she really was far better known as a pianist) and Hildegard of Bingen. At school I learned of three more, Elizabeth Lutyens, Imogen Holst and Elizabeth Maconchy but I never heard any of their music. Since then I've discovered a few more but by comparison to the male composers they're a drop in the ocean.Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-61996041701202196712008-12-12T12:27:00.000+00:002008-12-12T12:27:00.000+00:00Sorlil - I just took another look at the book and ...Sorlil - I just took another look at the book and I don't think it contains any poems in translation (which would explain the lack of your Russian favourite).<BR/><BR/>I was just reading the intro...it is brilliant and I may have to quote some in another post another time!<BR/><BR/>xRachel Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-78281164980453288342008-12-12T12:01:00.000+00:002008-12-12T12:01:00.000+00:00Shock is good! But Leonard Cohen is God. Obviously...Shock is good! But Leonard Cohen is God. Obviously. I thought everyone, poet or otherwise, knew that?The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-41008943807845957212008-12-12T11:39:00.000+00:002008-12-12T11:39:00.000+00:00I don't understand the Cohen thing either, especia...I don't understand the Cohen thing either, especially amongst poets, doesn't do anything for me at all.Marion McCreadyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04657757253873577465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-32172855330549294162008-12-12T11:33:00.000+00:002008-12-12T11:33:00.000+00:00Good Jamie tip...I do sometimes get into poets via...Good Jamie tip...I do sometimes get into poets via their prose...which probably tells you terrible truths about my love/hate relationship with poetry! I had in mind a post about that!<BR/><BR/>As for Duffy...well, we can't all like everything. I have shocked you all regularly with my lack of fervour for Leonard Cohen amongst others...(Plath...Eliot...).<BR/><BR/>xRachel Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-58221144174856063502008-12-12T11:25:00.000+00:002008-12-12T11:25:00.000+00:00Kathleen Jamie - yes! In the prose field too her b...Kathleen Jamie - yes! In the prose field too her book of essays 'Findings' is superb. <BR/><BR/>Duffy - really haven't been able to get into her, I'm afraid.The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-77576761824012226102008-12-12T11:17:00.000+00:002008-12-12T11:17:00.000+00:00As I said I only referred to poets in the '101 Poe...As I said I only referred to poets in the '101 Poems by 101 Women' in the post (it is in no way my post about all women poets). Akhmatova is not in the Greer book but Sexton is ('Woman with Girdle' printed 1962).<BR/><BR/>Jamie is not in this particular anthology but then not that many living poets are. The book intends to give a good spread of women poets over the ages more than fit in all the good poets of today, I think (plus Greer's specialist subject is earlier poetry is it not?) . I see Jamie in loads of anthologies so I'm sure she didn't mind missing this one too much. I do enjoy her poems...I keep meaning to read more.<BR/><BR/>xRachel Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-68074573294226423612008-12-12T11:11:00.000+00:002008-12-12T11:11:00.000+00:00Oh and Kathleen Jamie!Oh and Kathleen Jamie!Marion McCreadyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04657757253873577465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-34213848137380832292008-12-12T11:10:00.000+00:002008-12-12T11:10:00.000+00:00I would add Akhmatova to the list and maybe Sexton...I would add Akhmatova to the list and maybe Sexton whom I become more fond of in recent years.Marion McCreadyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04657757253873577465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-61848997501252276852008-12-12T11:09:00.000+00:002008-12-12T11:09:00.000+00:00Dave - I am surprised you haven't come across Park...Dave - I am surprised you haven't come across Parker before. She is known as many things - a critic, a screenwriter, an all-round wit...but she was a fine poet too. She is perhaps more people's poet (or comic's poet..) than poet's poet...but I really like her poems (and I know my girl Fiendish does too).<BR/><BR/>I did not list all my favourite women poets here...I only mentioned ones that were in the particular anthology. And I do like Duffy too...I particularly like how she just gets on with being good and successful without making any fuss (she barely blinked when she won the TS Eliot prize...made some joke about buying her daughter a new computer...). I haven't quite got to the point of LOVING her poems but that might yet happen. Maybe I just haven't read the right one for me yet.<BR/><BR/>Liz - I don't know how many of the women in this particular Faber anthology are Irish. When you tell me your favourites I'll look them up and see if they're in it.<BR/><BR/>xRachel Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-38175879401650930552008-12-12T11:01:00.000+00:002008-12-12T11:01:00.000+00:00Rachel, great post...will check out the poets you ...Rachel, great post...will check out the poets you mention and maybe get to adding some Irish women poets that I like...over the weekend, hopefully, as head in a spin right now and may have the onslaught of a vomiting bug!Lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05990807765195683301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-83152511066142971422008-12-12T10:42:00.000+00:002008-12-12T10:42:00.000+00:00Your list of favourite women poets would be much t...Your list of favourite women poets would be much the same as mine, although I would include Carol Ann Duffy and, I am ashamed to say, did not know Dorothy Parker. However, I share your opinion of <I>Résumé</I>, so thanks for widening my horizon. I must look her up!Dave Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430484174826768488noreply@blogger.com