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How to Write a Poem John Redmond (University of Liverpool)

How to Write a Poem By John Redmond (University of Liverpool)

How to Write a Poem by John Redmond (University of Liverpool)

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Summary

* An innovative introduction to writing poetry designed for students of creative writing and budding poets alike. * Challenges the reader's sense of what is possible in a poem. * Traces the history and highlights the potential of poetry.

How to Write a Poem Summary

How to Write a Poem by John Redmond (University of Liverpool)

An innovative introduction to writing poetry designed for students of creative writing and budding poets alike.
  • Challenges the reader's sense of what is possible in a poem.
  • Traces the history and highlights the potential of poetry.
  • Focuses on the fundamental principles of poetic construction, such as: Who is speaking? Who are they speaking to? Why does their speaking take this form?
  • Considers both experimental and mainstream approaches to contemporary poetry.
  • Consists of fourteen chapters, making it suitable for use over one semester.
  • Encourages readers to experiment with their poetry.

How to Write a Poem Reviews

John Redmond's How to Write a Poem contains no false notes. He does not patronise his reader with easy examples or workshop games, but lights on his subject with elegant pragmatism and humility. His overall argument arises from a very personal yet wholly professional sense of poetry as an art form in practice, and his examples are informed by deep reading and writerly intuition. I consider the book a small masterpiece of clarity, economy and experience. It brings light to poetry as something made: something real and realised. David Morley, Warwick University

The examples throughout the book are contemporary and provocative in the most helpful sense. ... [Redmond] clearly loves poems, enough to show you in detail how they work. Poetry News

About John Redmond (University of Liverpool)

John Redmond is the author of one collection of poems, Thumb's Width (2001), which was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, and he features as one of 'The New Irish Poets' in a Bloodaxe anthology of that name. He was previously Assistant Editor of the long-running poetry magazine Thumbscrew, and writes reviews on a regular basis for the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian and Poetry Review. He is Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Liverpool and, previously, was Visiting Assistant Professor at Macalester College in St Paul, Minnesota.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

1. The Question of Address.

2. Viewpoint.

3. The Question of Voices.

4. The Question of Scale.

5. Uses of Repetition.

6. Image.

7. Short Lines.

8. Long Lines.

9. Diction.

10. Uses of Syntax.

11. Tone.

12. Traditional Forms: Ode.

13. Traditional Forms: Epistle.

14. The Question of Background.

15. Conclusion: The Question of Variety.

Index

Additional information

GOR005495107
9781405124805
1405124806
How to Write a Poem by John Redmond (University of Liverpool)
John Redmond (University of Liverpool)
How to Study Literature
Used - Good
Paperback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
20050713
176
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