Musician Paul Kelly Argues That Poetry "Enhances and Heightens Life", as I Slog Through a C.Day Lewis Book of Poems Considering Walking Away from Them?📖🖋🃏

Paul Kelly says good poetry is like
a companion that follows you for life

Cecil Day-Lewis CBE
(27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972)

The LIFE and HeART of
Thomas Hardy's Work?

I've tried, but poetry just doesn't do it for me Paul ... nor Shakespeare's sonnets, for that matter.

'Walking Away' comes from the 1962 collection 'The Gate', so that poem in the You Tubes above wasn't from my C.Day Lewis book of poems from 1943-1947.

From Brontë Country to a
Byron Bay Brewery Tour?

I was going to give this C. Day Lewis book away with a bunch of other books that I did give away, including Paul Kelly's CD of Shakespeare's sonnets, but I thought I would hold on to it and give all of the poems a read first and then if I didn't want to keep the book, mail it to a specialist secondhand bookshop where some reader might appreciate it more than me or someone who picked up the book for free in a neighbourhood book lending library -

Do I Thank the Book Angel or the Book Bunny?👼🐰

Paul Kelly's Shakespeare sonnets
CD far left in my donation bag

While I have tried to get into poetry through reading excellent books like 'Saved by a Poem' by Kim Rosen, which even came with a CD in the back of various poems being read by various people, poetry is just not my bag.

I do like watching movies though, but do find actors as weird as poets when it comes to real life;-)

Straight Talking English Podcast:
Cecil Day Lewis' 'Walking Away' 

Seán Day-Lewis recalled poets of
the 1930s visiting the family home

And while I am a big fan of Paul Kelly's songs, I'm not a fan of Shakespeare and his sonnets.

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Paul Kelly, musician whose new
album is called 'Poetry' 

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be saved by a poem?

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