Here’s a quote from Philip Levine published on the latest Poetry Trust e-newsletter:
“Don’t scorn your life just because it’s not dramatic, or it’s impoverished, or it looks dull, or it’s workaday. Don’t scorn it. It is where poetry is taking place if you’ve got the sensitivity to see it, if your eyes are open.”
Here’s a poem by Paul Farley called ‘Treacle’ : http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/treacle
And ‘Curlew’ by Jeremy Hooker: http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/curlew
And, finally, one from Philip Gross, ‘The Duke of Nowhere’ : http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/duke-nowhere
Finding the extraordinary in the ordinary.