The Portable Poetry Workshop

by McLoughlin, Nigel

• ISBN13: 9780230522305
• ISBN10: 0230522300
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-11-23
• Publisher: Red Globe Pr

Summary

This book explores the art of writing poetry from a practice-based perspective. Split into three sections, it covers poetic form, tropes, structural devices and approaches poets have developed and used in their work. Each chapter unpacks a particular concept or form, then demonstrates how this works through examples and creative exercises.

Author Biography

NIGEL MCLOUGLIN is a published poet and his collections include Songs for No Voices (2004) and Blood (2005). He is Field Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Gloucestershire and holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Lancaster.

Table of Contents

Introduction
PART I: POETIC FORMS
The Sonnet
Terza Rima
The Villanelle
The Terzanelle
The Ballad
The Ballade
The Sestina
The Ode
Syllabic Poetry
Blank Verse
Free Verse
Minor Forms
PART II: POETIC DEVICES
Simile
Metaphor
Extended Metaphor
Metonymy
Syndoche
Irony
Allegory
Dramatic Monologue
Prolepsis
Analepsis
Dialogue
Voice
PART III: APPROACHES
Gerard Manley Hopkins - Instress & Sprung Rhythm
W. B Yeats - Symbolism
Robert Frost - The Sound of Sense
Amy Lowell - Poetry as a Spoken Art
T.S. Eliot - The Objective Correlative
William Empson - Seven Types of Ambiguity
Gertrude Stein - Poetry & Grammar
Charles Olson - Projective Verse
Allen Ginsberg - When The Mode of the Music Changes and Abstraction in Poetry.
Frank O'Hara - Personism
Adrienne Rich - Blood, Bread and Poetry
Eavan Boland - The Woman Poet: Her Dilemma
APPENDIX 1: Metre.
APPENDIX 2: Rhyme classifications
GLOSSARY of terms.