The Portable Poetry Workshop

Name: The Portable Poetry Workshop
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SKU: 9780230522305
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By Nigel McLoughlin

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The Portable Poetry Workshop by Nigel McLoughlin is a hands-on guide to the craft of poetry. Structured in three parts—form and structure, trope and device, and poetics and practice—it explores sonnets, ballads, irony, imagery, and the work of poets like Robert Frost and Amy Lowell. Filled with examples and writing exercises, it encourages poets to develop their skills and expand their creative horizons.
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This book is ideal for aspiring and practising poets seeking a practical approach to learning poetry writing, as well as students and educators in creative writing and literature.

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.

'I love this book for its combination of practicality, context and readability. It is plain speaking, but it is also much more than that, it is thoroughly engaging!' - Graeme Harper, Oakland University, USA

Description

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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780230522305

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 November 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 148.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 313g

Pages: 264

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About the Author

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.