The World's Worst Poetry

The World's Worst Poetry
Author: Stephen Robins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: American poetry
ISBN: 9781853754814

We all need a bit of poetry in our lives to inspire and to elevate. But what happens when poetry goes wrong, and how bad can it get? Stephen Robins has scoured the anthologies of the world to amass the most astonishing examples of really awful verse. Each featured poet is introduced with a light-hearted discussion of his or her life, exploring published works, fame, and reputation. The result is a treasure trove of poetic disasters that should hold the attention of even the most jaded reader.

Very Bad Poetry

Very Bad Poetry
Author: Kathryn Petras
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 145
Release: 1997-03-25
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0679776222

Writing very bad poetry requires talent. It helps to have a wooden ear for words, a penchant for sinking into a mire of sentimentality, and an enviable confidence that allows one to write despite absolutely appalling incompetence. The 131 poems collected in this first-of-its-kind anthology are so glaringly awful that they embody a kind of genius. From Fred Emerson Brooks' "The Stuttering Lover" to Matthew Green's "The Spleen" to Georgia Bailey Parrington's misguided "An Elegy to a Dissected Puppy", they mangle meter, run rampant over rhyme, and bludgeon us into insensibility with their grandiosity, anticlimax, and malapropism. Guaranteed to move even the most stoic reader to tears (of laughter), Very Bad Poetry is sure to become a favorite of the poetically inclined (and disinclined).

The Worst Poetry Book Ever

The Worst Poetry Book Ever
Author: Lily Luverton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre:
ISBN:

This book will leave you in silence. Whether it be from tears of laughter or from a single recurring thought: "WTF did I just read?", The Worst Poetry Book Ever, is quite literally the worst poetry book ever. I hope you like it! Or hate it!

The Hatred of Poetry

The Hatred of Poetry
Author: Ben Lerner
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2016-06-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0865478201

"The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--

B Is for Bad Poetry

B Is for Bad Poetry
Author: Pamela August Russell
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2009
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9781402767876

A hysterical collection of bad poetry. It includes such work as: "Tea For Two" ("A Tragedy"); "Nietzsche And The Ice-Cream Truck"; "Capitalism Can Fall Not Like I Fell For You"; "Inappropriately Touched By An Angel"; and, "Love Is Like A Toilet Bowl."

The Stuffed Owl

The Stuffed Owl
Author: D.B. Wyndham Lewis
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2003-04-30
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781590170380

The editors of this legendary and hilarious anthology write: "It would seem at a hasty glance that to make an anthology of Bad Verse is on the whole a simple matter . . . On the contrary . . . Bad Verse has its canons, like Good Verse. There is bad Bad Verse and good Bad Verse. It has been the constant preoccupation of the compilers to include in this book chiefiy good Bad Verse." Here indeed one finds the best of the worst of the greatest poets of the English language, masterpieces of the maladroit by Dryden, Wordsworth, and Keats, among many others, together with an index ("Maiden, feathered, uncontrolled appetites of, 59;. . . Manure, adjudged a fit subject for the Muse, 91") that is itself an inspired work of folly.

First World War Poetry

First World War Poetry
Author: Jon Silkin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1997-02-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780141180090

A selection of poetry written during World War I. In the introduction Jon Silkin traces the changing mood of the poets - from patriotism through anger and compassion to an active desire for social change. The book includes work by Sassoon, Owen, Blunden, Rosenberg, Hardy and Lawrence.

Adultolescence

Adultolescence
Author: Gabbie Hanna
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2017-09-19
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1501178334

Comedian Gabbie Hanna brings levity to the twists and turns of modern adulthood in this exhilarating debut collection of illustrated poetry. In poems ranging from the singsong rhythms of children’s verses to a sophisticated confessional style, Gabbie explores what it means to feel like a kid and an adult all at once, revealing her own longings, obsessions, and insecurities along the way. Adultolescence announces the arrival of a brilliant new voice with a magical ability to connect through alienation, cut to the profound with internet slang, and detonate wickedly funny jokes between moments of existential dread. You’ll turn to the last page because you get her, and you’ll return to the first because she gets you.

This Is My Beloved

This Is My Beloved
Author: Walter Benton
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 43
Release: 2012-08-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0307805131

“Never before has the delight and wonder experienced in young love, in which is implicit physical discovery, been conveyed with such touching honesty or with rhapsody so involving unconscious pathos. Those who seek to drag any honest writing through the gutters of their own minds will do the same with this. Those who are not afraid of the strange miracle of life will understand this brave verse.” —William Rose Benét