tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270024178512866290.post2732569971820781770..comments2023-10-27T07:29:26.285+00:00Comments on Polyolbion: Audience participationMatt Merritthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12371656447328595720noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270024178512866290.post-86854674661513862742007-06-19T21:29:00.000+00:002007-06-19T21:29:00.000+00:00Aha! Thank you Ben, Rob and Andrew. I'll have fun ...Aha! Thank you Ben, Rob and Andrew. I'll have fun looking through those.Matt Merritthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12371656447328595720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270024178512866290.post-75460751180465386872007-06-19T19:50:00.000+00:002007-06-19T19:50:00.000+00:00Just playing around with poems that I have on my h...Just playing around with poems that I have on my hard drive:<BR/><BR/>Amy Clampitt, "A Hermit Thrush" (sort of)<BR/><BR/>My "First Rain in Delhi" (there's a link to it on my blog, in the section of poem links)<BR/><BR/>Geoff Brock, "Northeaster" (in his book "Weighing Light")<BR/><BR/>My "Thumbnail Sketch" (in the latest issue of "Stand", though it's really about a tornado and not about a thunderstorm)<BR/><BR/>Bob Hicok, "Weather Report" -- on Verse Daily:<BR/><BR/>http://www.versedaily.org/2006/weatherreport.shtmlAndrew Shieldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02804655739574694901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270024178512866290.post-56631386154945639822007-06-19T11:04:00.000+00:002007-06-19T11:04:00.000+00:00Tomas Transtromer's "A Winter's Night" is an excel...Tomas Transtromer's "A Winter's Night" is an excellent thunderstorm poem - the best version is by Robin Robertson in "The Deleted World" collection, but Robin Fulton and Robery Bly also do a good job. <BR/><BR/>I'll send you another one by email, by Bologna poet, Davide Rondoni, called <I>Temporal</I> - the Italian is "temporale", which can mean either "thunderstorm" or "temporal", and the poem is about both time and thunder.<BR/><BR/>Also, if you're desperate, in my chapbook, <I>Light Storms from a Dark Country</I> features lightning, although thunder isn't diectly mentioned.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17046788730174617923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270024178512866290.post-28834402962162696712007-06-19T09:05:00.000+00:002007-06-19T09:05:00.000+00:00While not strictly a thunderstorm poem, Jacob Poll...While not strictly a thunderstorm poem, Jacob Polley's excellent poem 'April' features thunderstorm imagery and a general atmosphere of brooding over the changing weather. I couldn't find it online anywhere, but you can read one stanza from the poem in my review of <I>Little Gods</I> on The Poem site, here:<BR/><BR/>http://www.thepoem.co.uk/offshoots/off6.htmBen Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11077824416777371117noreply@blogger.com