The Portable Poetry Workshop

ISBN-13: 9780230522305 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 264 str.

Nigel McLoughlin

Opis

This book explores the art of poetry writing from a practice-based perspective, showing how form, trope and theory inform the practical craft of writing poems. It is divided into three key sections:

• Form and structure, covering sonnets, ballads, blank verse and more
  
• Trope and device, introducing topics such as irony, imagery and voice
  
• Poetics and practice, which discusses the writing of poets such as Robert Frost, Amy Lowell and Frank O'Hara
  

Each chapter unpacks a particular concept or form, using examples to display it in practice. The book is filled with exercises to get you writing, and hints and tips for effective re-writing and for avoiding common pitfalls. Written by published poets, many of whom teach writing or literature, The Portable Poetry Workshop will push you to explore beyond your creative writing boundaries.

Spis treści

Introduction SECTION I: FORM AND STRUCTURE 1. Varieties of The Sonnet; Nigel McLoughlin 2. Terza Rima; Martin Figura 3. The Villanelle; Siobhan Campbell 4. The Ballad; Paul Hardwick 5. Sestinas; Barbara Smith 6. The Ode; Tony Williams 7. Modern Syllabics; Claire Crowther 8. Blank Verse; Ros Barber 9. Vers Libre/Free Verse; Todd Swift 10. The Prose Poem; Carrie Etter 11. Taking Form: Experimental and Avant Garde Forms; Robert Sheppard 12. Spatial Form; Mario Petrucci SECTION II: TROPE AND DEVICE 13. Prosody; J. T. Welsch 14. Rhyme; Angela Topping 15. Simile; Andrea Holland 16. Metaphor; Nigel McLoughlin 17. How to Make a Woman Disappear: Extended Metaphor in 'Waiting for Bluebeard'; Helen Ivory 18. Irony is for Losers; Kevin Higgins 19. Dramatic Monologue; Barbara Smith 20. Humour in Poetry; Todd Swift 21. Imagery; Ashley Lister 22. Persona; Angela France  23. Voice; Andrea Holland 24. The Singing Within; Ann Drysdale SECTION III: POETICS AND PRACTICE 25. Gerard Manley Hopkins: Sprung Rhythm, Inscape & Instress; Nigel McLoughlin 26. Towards a Reading of 'The Mountain' by Robert Frost; Siobhan Campbell 27. Amy Lowell: Common Sense Readings; Ashley Lister 28. Eliot and Pound: The Better Makers; Todd Swift 29. The Meaning of Meaning: William Empson; Claire Crowther 30. Gertrude Stein: Poetry & Grammar; J. T. Welsch 31. Charles Olson's Projective Verse: The Breath and the Line; Kate North 32. Frank O'Hara: Personism; Barbara Smith 33. William Carlos Williams: Music and Machines; Susan Millar DuMars 34. Maurice Scully and the Avant Garde; Paul Perry 35. When is a Riddle not a Riddle?; Helen Ivory 36. Muriel Rukeyser: The Social Role of Poetry; Claire Crowther.

O autorze

Nigel McLoughlin is a poet whose work has been widely published over the last twenty years. His fifth collection, entitled Chora: New and Selected Poems, was published by Templar Poetry in 2009, and recordings of his work were selected for inclusion in The Poetry Archive. He is Professor of Creativity and Poetics at the University of Gloucestershire, UK.