Welcome to Booking Through Thursday, a weekly bookish meme about books and reading for everyone who loves both. Booking Through Thursday was first hosted by Deb. With permission, I’ve restarted it in 2026.
This week’s prompt:
Happy April! In honor of National Poetry Month, today’s prompt is all about poetry. Do you read it? Have a favorite poet? Avoid it altogether? Let us know in the comments or on your blog.
Do you read poetry or have a favorite poet?
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I do read poetry from time to time. It makes a lovely break between novels—or even during long novels, when I want to read something else but don’t want to start another book.
Favorite poet? I must go with Alexander Pushkin. I still have a volume of his poetry, in Russian, somewhere on my bookshelves.
In fact, at one time, I had one of those poems memorized. It was a requirement for one of my college classes. Per the instructor:
If tiny Soviet children in Siberia, gathered around a sunlamp during the darkest months of the year, can memorize Pushkin’s oeuvre, then certainly you can manage the one.
Safe to say we were all terrified of this particular instructor. And yes, we had to stand in front of the class and recite our chosen poem.
Even so, I still love Pushkin.
I’d be interested in hearing your Pushkin recommendations! A translation you’d recommend?
Oh, don’t get me started on translations. LOL I tend to overthink them and then end up not re-reading anything. But I did a quick search on Amazon, and I’m thinking that Novels, Tales, Journeys: The Complete Prose of Alexander Pushkin looks like a good place to start. Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse might also be worth a try. Translations differ, and opinions on translations also differ, sometimes wildly and passionately.
Thanks!