Poets and Poems: Robert McDowell and "Sweet Wolf"

Like most people, I love a good story. But I’m a sucker for good stories written in poetry. One of my favorite works to reread is Robin Robertson’s The Long Take, an entire noir novel written in poetic form. 

I hadn’t previously read poetry by Robert McDowell, so I closely read poet Chad Abushanab’s introduction to McDowell’s Sweet Wolf: Selected and New Poems. Two phrases leaped off the page at me – lyrical poetry and, even better, narrative poetry.

 

And I thought, “A storyteller!”

 

I was not to be disappointed. Not at all. 

To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.

Some Tuesday Readings

 

The Unsung Shakespeare – Joseph Pearce at The Imaginative Conservative.

 

Prompt Celebration! The Colour Out of Space – Tweetspeak Poetry.

 

Sonnets for Michelangelo – 41 – Vittoria Colanna at Kingdom Poets (D.S. Martin).

 

That’s My Heart Right There – Willie Perdomo at Every Day Poets.

 

“First Time In,” poem by Ivor Gurney – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.