Journal Entry 1 by katrinat from Leigh-on-Sea, Essex United Kingdom on Tuesday, March 09, 2010

I loved this collection which features from across the world and centuries. The poems were often funny and witty. Not a collection for men though.
RABCKing this to Spain, where hopefully it'll find some more readers. 

Journal Entry 2 by katrinat at RABCK, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- United Kingdom on Saturday, April 03, 2010

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Hope you enjoy this mix of poems 

Journal Entry 3 by veleta from Ourense, Ourense Spain on Thursday, April 08, 2010

Thank you a lot for having sent me the book!

The list of female poet writers is impressive (It's located at the end of the compilation), and I think I've heard of only one fourth of them previously, so I hope this becomes a discovery odissey for me.

Thank you again! 

Journal Entry 4 by veleta from Ourense, Ourense Spain on Sunday, May 16, 2010

I've loved every single poem so much!!!! The good thing about this compilation is that each poem is completely different: in ideology, in type of stanza, in the rhyming or not, in spelling conventions, in humorous or serious tone, in topic. Maybe the only ones I didn't appreciate at all were the two or three which deviated so much from spelling and pronunciation conventions in RP English that they became difficult for me to read.

I was really surprised at some of the authors' poems. The only one I had actually read before was one of Margaret Atwood, Is/Not. From poems from the Chinese tradition to modern free verses thought of to be read aloud in performance poetry, everything seems to be here, even a poem by Spanish author Ana Castillo - I read one of her novels, but didn't even know she wrote poetry.

I don't know what I expected of Sappho, but clearly it was not this:
Sappho – If You Are Squeamish
(Trans: Mary Barnard)

If you are squeamish

Don’t prod the
beach rubble.

--- Such a joyous wickedness!!!!

 

Journal Entry 5 by veleta from Ourense, Ourense Spain on Sunday, May 16, 2010

I don't look like Kim Basingter as well, but I think I'll have to reconsider my self-esteem again: I've realised that might not be a bad thing after all.

Thank you so much for sending the book to me!!! 

Journal Entry 6 by veleta at Pub Dickens in Ourense, Ourense Spain on Saturday, May 22, 2010

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Tomorrow evening, if everything goes with the plan. 

Journal Entry 7 by Gorie at Ourense, Ourense Spain on Saturday, May 29, 2010

I don't like verse, but...