The Trouble with Poetry is the new collection from probably the most popular poet in the entire planet, and finds everyone's favourite contemporary Pre-Socratic in as funny and wise (and sometimes joyfully silly) form as ever. Billy Collins's tone is inimitable. Drawled and knowing, yet without a hint of world-weariness or cynicism, he fearlessly addresses the reader as friend and intimate -- and comrade, inviting them to square up to the various collective crises of the bald ape in the 21st century. Collins remains the ...
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The Trouble with Poetry is the new collection from probably the most popular poet in the entire planet, and finds everyone's favourite contemporary Pre-Socratic in as funny and wise (and sometimes joyfully silly) form as ever. Billy Collins's tone is inimitable. Drawled and knowing, yet without a hint of world-weariness or cynicism, he fearlessly addresses the reader as friend and intimate -- and comrade, inviting them to square up to the various collective crises of the bald ape in the 21st century. Collins remains the only poet who can write about the next-to-nothing of our lives, the little boredoms, habits and frustrations of our daily and domestic existence, revealing their true importance and meaning -- and demonstrating that the same historical and cosmic forces bear upon them as upon the great events of the age. 'Billy Collins is one of my favourite poets in the world' Carol Ann Duffy 'I'd follow this man's mind anywhere' Michael Donaghy 'Billy Collins's poems describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides' John Updike
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Before I read this collection, I had a deep and long-standing aversion to free verse poetry. Here, Billy Collins shows that it is possible for free verse to be truly beautiful and inspiring, as well as humorous and entertaining. In "The Lanyard," on page 45, he describes the feelings of a young boy giving his mother a lanyard made at summer camp. "Eastern Standard Time," on page 23, is addressed to "only those in my own time zone / this proper slice of longitude / that runs from pole to snowy pole / down the globe through Montreal to Bogota." In the title poem of the collection, on page 83, he tells us that "the trouble with poetry is / that is encourages the writing of more poetry, / more guppies crowding the fish tank . . ." Making the reader want to laugh and cry by turns, this book is a gem.
