Poetry Buzz
What better time than this month to promote and review a Poetry Book on The Phantom Paragrapher as New Zealand heads towards the Montana Poetry Awards and Poetry Day.
Also this week in New Zealand is Library Week ,where everyone celebrates those wonderful librarians ( that's my day job).
Review : The Courtship of Reason - Sheri Wright - 2010
"The Courtship of Reason"
What gets us out of bed in the morning, or makes us want to crawl back in, yet, somehow find ourselves putting on shoes and walking out the door ? Where do we draw the line at pulling the blankets over our heads? And if we did, is five more minutes really enough? Is it only an excuse to let our thoughts dawdle till we miss an appointment, or class and then, well, what's the point in getting dressed? But then, we can only fool ourselves for so long.
Poetess Sheri Wright has opened and communicated through a wonderful array of Poetry. Her poems talk about the outcasts of society, those who tend to differ from the norm from Grandparents who won't go shopping to a new solution of denture-cleaning in the toilet bowl.
Her poems stand out as the society people who love to challenge the norm and those who though they may live in a world of conformity and fear. Their reaction is one shy of "We Don't care, we can live our lives like we want to ". Which supports her introduction of the What difference does five more minutes make ?. Her characters spread out between her poetry make us want to laugh with and at as we are chucked into their dysfunctional worlds which they all seem so happy and content with.
As a poet Sheri Wright's poems touch us all in different ways and are written in a way that they keep the readers entertained whether they be hilarious or sombre poems. This is a poetry book that everyone should add to their collections.
Also this week in New Zealand is Library Week ,where everyone celebrates those wonderful librarians ( that's my day job).
Review : The Courtship of Reason - Sheri Wright - 2010
"The Courtship of Reason"
What gets us out of bed in the morning, or makes us want to crawl back in, yet, somehow find ourselves putting on shoes and walking out the door ? Where do we draw the line at pulling the blankets over our heads? And if we did, is five more minutes really enough? Is it only an excuse to let our thoughts dawdle till we miss an appointment, or class and then, well, what's the point in getting dressed? But then, we can only fool ourselves for so long.
Poetess Sheri Wright has opened and communicated through a wonderful array of Poetry. Her poems talk about the outcasts of society, those who tend to differ from the norm from Grandparents who won't go shopping to a new solution of denture-cleaning in the toilet bowl.
Her poems stand out as the society people who love to challenge the norm and those who though they may live in a world of conformity and fear. Their reaction is one shy of "We Don't care, we can live our lives like we want to ". Which supports her introduction of the What difference does five more minutes make ?. Her characters spread out between her poetry make us want to laugh with and at as we are chucked into their dysfunctional worlds which they all seem so happy and content with.
As a poet Sheri Wright's poems touch us all in different ways and are written in a way that they keep the readers entertained whether they be hilarious or sombre poems. This is a poetry book that everyone should add to their collections.
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