I figured this forum should maybe have another topic :p

Anyone else a fan of the Beat generation of poetry? Ginsberg is my favourite at the moment since I heard one of his live recordings of Howl and America. Fantastic voice for perfomance poetry.

I've heard of beat poetry, but have not every actually heard any or anything. Would you care to explain it to me and maybe suggest a few starters.. such as where to learn more about it or get more exposure to it... things like that?

For starters depending on whether you like prose or poetry, Kerouac was a Beat Poet and his "On the Road" is a great starting point and probably one of the most famous and significant works from the Beat generation.

It's hard to define it but it was basically started by Kerouac as a term to describe his friends and fellow writers around the fifties and early sixties. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_poets That is a very helpful link.

I'd really have to recommend reading "Howl" and "America" by Ginsberg. "Howl" is pretty famous but I like "America" more, it just feels perfect to me. I'm currently dissecting his poetry at the moment and loving it.

Burroughs was a big deal part of it all but I'm not his biggest fan.

Hopefully that was helpful :p

Thanks for the info. :) Oh! Jack Kerouac, right? Yeh... I should definitely check this out. I'm sadly, not well-read in poetry. Bad, bad me! So I'll look at some beat poetry and come back to this. :D