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<\/a><\/p>\nI often recommend poetry collections, and often get a look of bafflement in return.\u00a0 Then, a meek, \u201cI don\u2019t really read poetry.\u201d\u00a0 I firmly believe everyone<\/em> should read poetry, regardless of whether you have any interest in actually writing poetry.\u00a0 And, I equally firmly believe that people only think they don\u2019t like poetry because they haven\u2019t read the right poetry for them.<\/p>\n Too often, we only read the poetry we were assigned to read in school. Too often, we think of poetry as some kind of riddle to decode. Too often, we are intimidated by poetry. As Maya Angelou said,<\/p>\n Human beings love poetry. They don’t even know it sometimes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Poetry can make us fall in love with language, with image, with rhythm, with sound.\u00a0 It\u2019s a snapshot, a fleeting moment.\u00a0 In honour of World Poetry Day, here are some poetry collections (and short suggestions of what you\u2019ll experience within them) that you might not have read, but you definitely should.<\/p>\n 1996<\/em> by Sara Peters.\u00a0 Obsessions, childhood, desire, and cruelty.<\/p>\n When This World Comes to an End<\/em> by Kate Cayley.\u00a0 Fables, cautionary tales, apocalyptic stories, curio photographs.<\/p>\n The Whole and Rain-Domed Universe<\/em> by Colette Bryce.\u00a0 The Troubles in Ireland, ghosts, violence, emigration and return.<\/p>\n The Red Files<\/em> by Lisa Bird-Wilson.\u00a0 The residential school experience in Canada, family, First Nations traditions.<\/p>\n McPoems<\/em> by Billeh Nickerson.\u00a0 Fast food work, humour, capitalism.<\/p>\n The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison<\/em> by Maggie Smith.\u00a0 Fairy tales, the dangerous, the realms of imagination.<\/p>\n Tell: Poems for a Girlhood<\/em> by Soraya Peerbaye.\u00a0 The tragedy of Reena Virk, Victoria BC, trial transcripts.<\/p>\n There Are More Beautiful Tyhings Than Beyonce<\/em> by Morgan Parker.\u00a0 Pop-culture criticism, 21st<\/sup> century feminism, racism, the American political climate.<\/p>\n Injun<\/em> by Jordan Abel.\u00a0 Found text, racism and the representation of Indigenous people, western novels.<\/p>\n Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth<\/em> by Warsan Shire.\u00a0 Sensuality, the narratives of Islam, preconceptions.<\/p>\n Sidereal<\/em> by Rachael Boast.\u00a0 Robust, whimsical, time and chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Andrea MacPherson I often recommend poetry collections, and often get a look of bafflement in return.\u00a0 Then, a meek, \u201cI don\u2019t really read poetry.\u201d\u00a0 I firmly believe everyone should read poetry, regardless of whether you have any interest in actually writing poetry.\u00a0 And, I equally firmly believe that people only think they don\u2019t like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}