novels written by poets

Hardy, Lawrence, Warren are poet-novelists, always writing both.

BS Johnson frequently said he thought of himself as a poet, but as he's best known for his novels I guess he doesn't count.

not exactly on point, but an oddity all the same

this is based on a screenplay written by Robert Lowell - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Activities

I don't recommend watching the movie really tho tbh

the couple of hd novels i've read were both quite good, if not particularly earth shattering

conclusive proof that wcw was the author of the great american novel

You justreminded me. WCW wrote In the Money, which impressed the fuck out of me last summer.

Blanking on the title of the Williams collection I read (in the 70s), but think it was excerpt from White Mule gave me chills.

there's a bit in the new directions wcw reader. have been waiting to find a copy of white mule before reading in the money, though not sure how necessary it is to read the trilogy in sequence?

Was WM first? If so, that's the one I loved.

WCW's Paterson must count as a novel in verse

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)
Posted: September 12, 2016 at 7:34:55 AM
I like it too but it's more of a compendium of sparkling aperçus and devastating putdowns than a novel.

alltime compendium of owns def

paterson is not a novel, not even stretching

I don't know about that: it's more cohesive than plenty of actual novels you could name, and it has its Ulysses/Dublin influence. But maybe I'm wrong. Disnae matter.

they're books for kids but john masefield's "the midnight folk" and "the box of delights" are classics

i own but have never read his ODTAA, which seems to be in much the same vein except for grown-ups who like adventures at sea

Not restricted to novels: Prose works by poets

Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

This Vallejo selected is p exciting on the prose by poets front. Vallejo wrote fic so there mighe be extracts.

Elizabeth Smart's /By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept/

I really really did not like that book

i asked for rilke's novel for christmas

I really really did not like that book

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/21/walt-whitmans-lost-novel-the-life-and-adventures-of-jack-engle-found

I suspect that if Roberto Bolano had been asked, he would have considered all his novels to be "written by a poet". Thomas Hardy certainly thought this way about his novels.