My personal selection of the five indispensable books that every Catholic should read has just been published by Pete Socks on the Catholic Book Blogger. Check it out:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/catholicbookblogger/2014/12/15/the-laity-speaks-joseph-pearce/
There is as you know a mountain currently of religious or quasi-religious poetry which can be found on the internet for the most part. And the great bulk of it is, well, unfortunate. I do not question the sincerity of the writers or even their piety, but they have come to build lacking any tools.
Good religious themed poetry is extremely difficult to write, and the poet must labor under the knowledge that there exist the Psalms! These are the ultimate in all poetry of praise. Yet it has been my experience that even very secular poetry when written by skilled hands and lacking some political axe to grind, can be extremely uplifting and inspiring, often in ways that it is very difficult to describe. I’ve long noticed that to describe or explain poetry—good poetry—there is a tendency, unintended I’m sure, to seem very arbitrary and invariably seems to miss the mark, at least to me. The old example of pulling apart a rose to discover its secret of beauty in the lab.