THE SEALEY CHALLENGE 2024
Poetry books read in August 2024
In order of reading:
Day 1: ‘Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt’ by John Cooper Clarke
Day 2: ‘The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy’ by Tim Burton
Day 3: ‘Kid’ by Simon Armitage
Day 4: Magma 87 - Islands
Day 5: Musical Tables by Billy Collins
Day 6: Poetry Review Winter 2023 by The Poetry Society
Day 7: ‘Collected Poems’ by Christopher Okigbo
Day 8: ‘Fugitive Poetry’ by Nathaniel Parker Willis
Day 9: ‘Love, Smoke, Ghosts’ by A. X. Salvo
Day 10: ‘Nothing In This World Is Free, Just Poetry’ by Darren Hobson
Day 11: ‘Free Spirit Trapped’by Matthew Marchon
Day 12: George Orwell The Complete Poetry
Day 13: Great American Poets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Day 14: ‘The Good Child’s Guide to Rock ‘n’ Roll’ by Carol Ann Duffy
Day 15: ‘Midnight in the City of Clocks’ by Tobias Hill
Day 16: ‘Cat Poems’ by The World’s Greatest Poets
Day 17: ‘Human Tissue’ by Hilary Menos
Day 18: Rattle Summer 2024
Day 19: In Her Voice: The 2020 Poetry Anthology
Day 20: Poetry Review Autumn 2023
Day 21: ‘Penguin’s Poems by Heart’ Ed. by Laura Barker
Day 22: Zoom by Simon Armitage
Dsy23: ‘Selling Manhattan’ by Carol Ann Duffy
Day 24: ‘Clouded Thoughts’ by Michael Froilon
Day 25: ‘Sonnets to Orpheus and Duino Elegies’ by Rainer Maria Rilke
Day 26: ‘The Poetic Edda’ Trans. by Carolynne Larrington
Day 27: ‘Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful’ by Alice Walker
Day 28: ‘The Ewart Quarto’ by Gavin Ewart
Day 29: ‘That Awkward Age’ by Roger McGough
Day 30: ‘Off the Shelf’ by Carol Ann Duffy
Day 31: ‘Xanadu’ by Simon Armitage