According to a Penguin Random House post on Facebook this morning, today is National Bad Poetry Day. I’m not sure if that applies to the UK or to the USA, but it got me thinking. What is bad poetry? How do you recognise it?
Everyone has their own subjective feelings about poetry; it’s almost impossible to be objective, even when analysing a poem at school or college, and particularly when it comes to your own writing. Some of us enjoy a nice bit of doggerel and find other poetry difficult to understand. From the limerick, through villanelles and sonnets, to the haiku and beyond, poetry is so varied that I can’t see how there can be any bad poetry.
So prove me wrong. My challenge to you is to tell me and other WordPress bloggers about a poem that you think is particularly BAD (meaning awful, ghastly, dire, terrible, etc.)! But please, keep it clean.
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