When was the last time you read some poetry?

I often set poetry reading as an at-home activity for my clients, particularly the ones who have come from the country to live in the city and who have lost some of the connection to the landscapes they love and are attached to.

To help guide your interest in poetry have a think about what you are attached to? Animals, people, the city, the bush?

A great poet for city lover’s – lovers of culture and the grit of life is a collection I’ve been reading by Allen Ginsberg who was one of the great beat poets who wrote from the late 40s to late 90s. What a poet! He is a descriptive God.

Ginsberg is a thinker’s poet. He records his experience and his poems are highly autobiographical yet written so well that his experience is familiar.

If you’re interested in looking for an easy mental escape or if you need to reinforce your connections to place or promote your other attachments, why not seek out a book of poetry at a good book store like Planet Books in Mt Lawley or that new bookstore Beaufort Street Books in Highgate.

Art recalls the memory

Of his true existence

to whoever has forgotten

that Being is the one thing

all the universe shouts.  

–        Allen Ginsberg.

If you’re looking for a good poet to begin your quest try reading anything by Rainer Maria Rilke. You will not be disappointed!