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Enjoy Bright Star! 
Thanks to the nice people at Hopscotch, we have a competition to win 1 of 5 double passes to see Jane Campion’s new film called “Bright Star”. It’s a movie about the English poet John Keats and his love for his young neighbour the fashion student Fanny Brawne and stars Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish. His letters to her are said to be very romantic and the film is based on these letters. It’s a beautifully shot period piece but I shan’t go into too much detail as I may let crucial details slip!
Valid Mondays to Fridays from 11th January 2010 until the end of the film’s theatrical season. Valid even with No Free List restrictions.
To win 1 of the 5 double passes, all you have to do is tell me the name of your favourite poet. Add your entry via a comment to this story. You can enter once daily as long as your answer is different. This competition is open to Australian residents only.
This competition finishes midnight AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time) on the 25th of December, 2009.
Good Luck to everyone!
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Lorraine
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Hi…
Mine is probably very cliched and I have to say I don’t read a lot of poetry but at school my friends and I were quite obsessed with the film ‘Dead Poet’s Society’ (wasn’t everyone?). I loved Robert Frost’s poem ‘The road less travelled’… Two roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the one less travelled and that has made all the difference. Can’t wait to see the film – it looks beautiful. Cheers.. Julie
John Keats is actually my favourite poet!
Emily Dickinson is great. A little dark at times but very thought provoking
My favourite poet is Mark Tredinnick. His work is beautiful. It seems it’s never easy being a poet and to finance his poetry Mark writes other wonderful stuff such as a novel, The Blue Plateau, and books to help people to write such as The Little Red Writing Book but his poetry is his most beautiful work. Find out about him at http://www.marktredinnick.com.au
Vikram Seth – especially “All you who sleep tonight” – I love it!http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/all-you-who-sleep-tonight/
AB Banjo Patterson – Man from Snowy
River is my fav
Robert Burns would have to be my favourite poet as I am a romantic by heart.
Oooh, tough question.
I’d say my favourite poet is Gwen Harwood. Or, maybe, Nikki Giovanni.
Henry Lawson, a much loved Australian poet!
Dorothy Parker – “my land is bare of chattering folk, the clouds lie low on the ridges..and sweet’s the air with the morning smoke from all my burning bridges..”
I love rhyming poety… sometimes it is cliched bt Henry Lawson is my favourite for fulfilling my desire to understand the role of the “bush” is my country’s history.
Banjo Paterson – and I thank my Pop for reading his poems to me. My favourite poetic quote though, was written by Keats: “I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.” I can’t wait to see this movie! Sal
It would have to be Robert Frost I think too.
I am not one for poetry to be honest! But Keats is good too….read a great sci-fi novel where there were two Keats obsessed AI robots and they would constantly debate over his poems hehe.
I love T. S. Eliot, the musical Cats was based on some of his poetry, but he wrote so much more and all so different.
My favourite poet is Wilfred Owen, and though he is primarily known for his WWI poems, he also wrote this beautiful poem “To Eros”: http://www.netpoets.com/classic/poems/048013.htm
Chris Mansell is my favourite.
I absolutely adore Maya Angelou, especially, Still I Rise.
“You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air I’ll rise”
I love John Masefield, Poet Laureate. His poems are always so descriptive and physical.For example, in Sea Fever you can almost feel the wind and sea spray on your face as your sailing ship ploughs through the ocean.
Mine is a 16th century poet called Ben Jonson, because of his poem mourning the death of his son Benjamin. The opening line is “Farewell to my right hand; and joy,” There’s a Biblical connection between right hand and Bejamin, and the semi-colon makes it unclear whether he is farewelling joy or whether his son is his right hand and his joy. Just beautiful.
Mmm… William Ernest Henley. More specifically, his “Invictus”.
Lord Byron is one of my favourites. I started on him when I went through my ‘Anne of Green Gables’ phase
Alfred Lord Tennyson… cant help it, I’m a sucker for romanticism!!
Tough choice but W.H. Auden always wins out in the end
John Keats
Percy Shelley
I really love the endearingly curt poetry of William Carlos Williams – I don’t care if others think it’s rubbish.
I also like the surrealist poetry and writing of Soviet write Daniil Kharms.
Awesome.
Mark Twain, he is probably not a real poet but I love his quotes. My favorite is “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover”. – Mark Twain
Dylan Thomas. And death shall have no dominion kills me
I never really liked or ‘got’ poetry, I always preferred normal prose. At university I studied Australian Literature for a year and read ‘The Monkey’s Mask’ by the Australian writer Dorothy Porter. This is crime fiction told in the form of a long poem with lesbian love affairs and murder set in the Blue Mountains and Sydney and I loved it! It actually has a plot and the language is much moe earthy than typical flowery poetry. I recommend it if you normally don’t like to read poetry.
William Blake <3
Jack Thompson’s rendition of the Loaded Dog is an Australian classic by Henry Lawson.
Judith Wright – and she is Australian For “Woman to child” and “Metho drinker”. Beautiful, stark, heart-wrenching.
I adore Dorothea Mackellar, I have a little book full of her poems bound in suede from the 1910s. One of my most treasured belongings
Dorothy Mackeller and her poem “My Country” – I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains… So summery and so Australian.
Hi Lorraine i’m a big poetry fan and am dying to see Bright Star. One of my favourire poets is Andrew motion, a former poet laureate in the uk.
On the whole I far prefer prose to poetry but there are some poems that I love. Rainer Maria Rilke wrote beautiful poetry so I’ll pick him though I also love some of Shakespeare’s sonnets. I’m not very good at picking just one favourite….
Kenneth Slessor is one of my favourite poets. I love his “five bells”.
My favourite poet is Thomas Edward Brown. He wrote the poem, My Garden.
I learnt it off by heart for year 6 poetry class way back in 1977 (now you know how old i am)
poem follows……enjoy
A GARDEN is a lovesome thing, God wot!
Rose plot,
Fringed pool,
Fern’d grot—
The veriest school
Of peace; and yet the fool
Contends that God is not—
Not God! in gardens! when the eve is cool?
Nay, but I have a sign;
‘Tis very sure God walks in mine.
Right now, Mem Fox. Can’t beat the rhyme, rhythm and repitition, and the humour is appreciated too!
Number 1 for me would have to be Dylan Thomas “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night.” I love the image of old age raving and burning at the close of day.
My favourite verse, Dylan’s equivalent to “Carpe Diem”:
“Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.”
I read the poem at my Dad’s funeral, and hope to do a bit of raving myself in my latter years.
Ah, well. I don’t really have a favorite poet…
But I’m interested in the comments that are coming in…will have to check these poets out!
This is so hard for me because I love poetry so much – I’m a definite junkie. Love Keats of course, but current favourite might be Carol Ann Duffy. I was so happy when she was awarded poet laureate this year – she was the first woman, first Scot and first openly not-straight person to get it yaaay.
I love her collection The World’s Wife, which is a series of short poems written from the perspective of wives of famous men in history.
Mrs Icarus:
I’m not the first or the last
to stand on a hillock,
watching the man she married
prove to the world
he’s a total, utter, absolute Grade A pillock.
My fav poet by far is Ernest Holmes. His Poem “She Let Go’just embodies the effortless of surrendering. Read it @http://health.romaindesign.com.au/blog/?p=119
I’d say Philip Larkin.
My favourite poem is actually one of Keats. It’s called ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’, which is a french title meaning The Beautiful Lady without Pity.
Almost more beautiful then that piece of poetry is the artwork that has been inspired from it.
I actually have always really loved William Shakespeare, ever since reading his work in high school (and actually being able to understand it!!) Every now and again I’ll pull out my complete works, but I do love seeing them brought to life on stage and screen.
Oscar Wilde would be my fav with “Roses and Rue” my fav poem of his. It’s a delightful ‘light’ poem with great use of metaphors
Love love love T.S. Eliot!
‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ was the first that I had read, and it was brilliant.
John Keats – When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripen’d grain;
When I behold, upon the light’s starr’d face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love;–then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.
Kenneth Slessor for me !
Slyvia Plath …
I love Wordsworth’s poetry extolling the beautiful scenes of the Lake District. My great joy was visiting this glorious place, sitting in his pew in the little church in Grasmere and seeing Dora’s Field next to St Mary’s church in Rydal, the place of many hundreds of daffodils he planted in memory of his daughter Dora.
I love WH Auden. Also ee cummings.
I honestly can’t wait for this movie. I saw a doco on it last week and think it looks wonderful. I adore period films and campion so it’s a winner for me!
T.S. Eliot is my favourite poet.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is wonderful!
I’m very fond of Pablo Neruda. I hear this movie is fabulous.
For me Robert Frost…
Ode to the poet that I adore…
his work inspires and treats
a true romantic to be read by one and all
the inimitable, incomparable Mr John Keats!
Coleridge. Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink how powerful in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
That is a beautiful film poster…good luck with the winners!
Bee Happy!
Another great giveaway, Lorraine! I so wish I lived in Australia!
I always loved Sylvia Plath – yes she was certainly eccentric – but interesting all the same!
Pablo Neruda, so romantic and deeply beautiful..
On nights like these I held her in my arms and kissed her greatly under the infinite sky
I am going for a contemporary poet. My favourite is Sylvia Plath. Before she died she wrote some beautiful poetry articulating life from a distinctly female perspective.
John Keats is my favourite poet, so obviously I’m looking forward to this movie! We studied him for the HSC, and I adored his poems.
I do love Keats and Ode to Autumn is the most perfect poem ever written, but my absolute favourite poet is an American female called Emily Dickinson. She was a very unusual, eccentric female, innovative,extraordinary poet, refused to do most of the conventional things expected of women in her era and her work is wonderful. unique and quite mind blowing!
And it’s wonderful to see how many people out there love poetry!!
Love John Keats!!
Ooooh, I really, really want to see this film. My favourite poet is Ogden Nash, because his poems make me laugh. One of my favourite poems of his is Children’s Party.
How did it get so late so soon?
It’s night before it’s afternoon.
December is here before it’s June.
Dr Seuss of course…. and never have these lines been more apt.
Banjo Patterson, he wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, what could be more Australian than “Waltzing Matilda’!
Sylvia Plath- Her poems further confirm the age old saying, ‘where there is tragedy, there is art’.
‘Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.’ – Lady Lazarus.
Does Dr Seuss count?
Ok, my favourite poet for today is Pablo Neruda. I wish I spoke Spanish so I could read the poems in his native tongue.
I want
to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
Such a sexy poet!
I am a Lewis Carroll fan.
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves…
Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou.
“Pretty women wonder where my secret lies,
I’m not cute or built to fit a fashion model’s size
But when I start to tell them, they think I’m telling lies.
I say,
It’s in the reach of my arms,
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.
Ted Hughes is my favourite poet.
Rabbie Burns is the wan fur me, hoots mon!
Bright Star competition.
My favourite poet is William Wordsworth
wilfred owen…obviously a pretty dark topic but so poignant, moving and thought evoking
I like humour in my poetry, and Banjo Patterson’s “Bush Christening” is one of my favourites.
However, I just can’t go past Pam Ayres for perception, comedic timing, and sheer wit. I remember performing “The Battery Hen” in primary school, complete with actions, in a hackneyed British accent, because it didn’t sound right in an Aussie drawl. Ms Ayres’ many other delightful offerings have kept me entertained since I was a child, and continue to make me chuckle today. Her rueful, incisive and engaging insights are a timeless tribute to a true talent.
Sylvia Plath.
I love Mario Benedetti – He was honest and heartfelt. He wrote about the good, the bad and the ugly in life.
17th Century English Poet – John Milton. Paradise Lost…a spiritual cocktail foaming with religious overtones…expressing the rise and fall of mankind.
17th Century poet – John Milton. Paradise Lost – a spiritual cocktail depicting the rise and fall of mankind.
My favourite poet is Christina Rossetti. She lived in England in the 19th century. I especially like her poems ‘Cobwebs’, ‘Remember’ and ‘Goblin Market’.
To drift with every passion till my soul / Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play, / Is it for this that I have given away / Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control?
Oscar
Wilde
Wilfred Owen kenneth Slessor Robert Frost Edgar Allen Poe woe is me to name but one so i have named one and three others to keep them company.
I don’t so much have a favourite poet as much as I have a favourite poetic moment,
It’s the scene from Sex and the City when they quote Beethoven.
‘Ever thine
Ever mine
Ever ours’
Breath taking!
John Keats is my favourite poet.
Banjo Patterson, as Im feeling quite patriotic
My beautiful Nan passed away last nigth after 92 amazing years on this planet, her favourite poet was Australia’s own legendary bush poet
- Banjo Paterson.
William Wordsworth’s Daffodils,
The way he talked of those yellow frills.
He seems to describe the world so brill!
I would have to go with a true Australian Icon; Banjo Patterson I love ‘Clancy of the Overflow’, I learnt this poem over 10 years ago in school and I can still recite it perfectly. His poems take your mind places and you can picture everything in the stories he is telling.
Ogden Nash:
God in his wisdom made the fly
And then forgot to tell us why!
There are many special poets, but none light the fire of my soul quite like the poetry of my fiance… His words are as wine to my spirit, and his love floats through like the song of a sweet flute, yet with the blazing embers of his tongue, he flames my desire, and cloaks in the warmth of words. There is no finer expression than that of my beloved.
William Wordsworth. Very descriptive.
Maya Angelou. She truly is a phenominal woman, and I hope all women will see her poem of the same name. She is fantastic and we certainly need more women like her in the world to speak up and tell it like it is!
Henry Lawson.
Ogden Nash!
More than a catbird hates a cat,
Or a criminal hates a clue,
Or the Axis hates the United States,
That’s how much I love you.
I love you more than a duck can swim,
And more than a grapefruit squirts,
I love you more than a gin rummy is a bore,
And more than a toothache hurts.
As a shipwrecked sailor hates the sea,
Or a juggler hates a shove,
As a hostess detests unexpected guests,
That’s how much you I love.
I love you more than a wasp can sting,
And more than the subway jerks,
I love you as much as a beggar needs a crutch,
And more than a hangnail irks.
I swear to you by the stars above,
And below, if such there be,
As the High Court loathes perjurious oathes,
That’s how you’re loved by me.
Because I am so pathetically Australian and have studied Australian literature all through school, I have to say that I still love Henry Lawson. Written in a time well before anything I can imagine and yet, I know that I know those places and people he writes of.
John Keats
Wilfred Owen – the finest First World War poet of his generation
Sylvia Plath
Byron’s poetry goes straight to my heart: my favourite -
“She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies”
My hubby works away from home so I like love poetry as that is about the most romance I get! lol! One I like about missing him is this one by
ROBERT RODNEY RUELAS
IF MISSING YOU COULD BLACKEN STARS,
THERE’D BE NO MIDNIGHT SHOW.
IF MISSING YOU COULD MAKE IT RAIN,
THE SEAS WOULD OVERFLOW.
IF MISSING YOU COULD MAKE IT HOT,
THERE’D BE DESERTS ALL AROUND.
IF MISSING YOU COULD SILENCE NOISE,
THE EARTH WOULD HAVE NO SOUND.
AND SO I GO NOW DREAMING OF
WHEN I’M HOLDING AND KISSING YOU.
FOR ONLY GOD KNOWS HOW MUCH IT HURTS
WHEN, MY LOVE, I’M MISSING YOU.
Emily Dickinson
It must be CJ Dennis. He encapsulates the Australian spirt by creating a visual picture of sight and sound through such clever imagery!
Hist!……… Hark!
My favourite poet by far is Dr Seuss! Thoughtful, funny and inspirational.
Dear Lorraine, I just wanted to say hi! Ive read all your archives to get me up to date. I just wanted to thankyou for helping to inspire me to eat again after being so sick. Reading your blog each day really gives me something to look forward to as well as some great ideas as we lived in similar ares in Sydney. Congratulations on such a wonderful site. All my love. My favourite poet is Robert Frost and my favourite poem of his is the road not taken.
Not considered as poet but I love the “poem” that Paul Child said to Julia Child; “You are the butter to my bread and breath to my life.” lovely…
Robert Browning.. for his lovely love poems to Elizabeth Barrett
I have to say Bronwen Wallace, the late Canadian poet, would be my favourite. The Stubborn Particulars of Grace was the only poetry book that accompanied me while working abroad for five years. Her impressions of family life were so easily recognisable I could read her words over and over.
Ted Hughes–had a chance to meet him at a conference but he was too ill to attend–sadly he died a few weeks later
Irish limericks are my fave
Although not many others about them may rave;
A rhyme or two, Gives a good chuckle whilst cookin’ me stew!!
Emily Dickinson
Semus Heaney. A unique and honest Irish voice (and the only poetry I read at School that I could stand!)
Lord Byron–so romantic
Banjo Patterson an aussie icon.
My 5 year old as her poems make absolutely no sense but have me laughing for hours!
Gillian Clarke–Welsh and wonderful
Elizabeth Barrett
Sylvia Plath, she was a revolutionary of her time.
Keats – First heard about him in the movie “Roman Holiday” with Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck. Then took notice.
The Bronte sisters – those wild and windy moors are such an inspiration, both in Summer and Winter. It’s one of my favourite places to visit.
I’m more of a fan of epic poetry so Homer would probably be my favourite. However, I am quite lacking in the ancient languages department but the translations do it for me.
I love poetry and it’s hard to Single out just one poet, but i think Mary Gilmore is the one. She described and fought for women, aboriginal and the economic rights of Australians. She is on the $10 note and her poetry still takes my breath away.
Walter De La Mare for The Listeners
Emily Dickinson
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Kenneth Slessor
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