This innovative introduction to writing poetry challenges our sense of what is possible in a poem.
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.
Acknowledgements
vi
Introduction
1
(16)
The Question of Address
17
(9)
Viewpoint
26
(10)
The Question of Voices
36
(11)
The Question of Scale
47
(9)
Uses of Repetition
56
(9)
Image
65
(8)
Short Lines
73
(13)
Long Lines
86
(6)
Diction
92
(8)
Uses of Syntax
100
(8)
Tone
108
(7)
Traditional Forms: Ode
115
(9)
Traditional Forms: Epistle
124
(10)
The Question of Background
134
(9)
Conclusion: The Question of Variety
143
(7)
Index
150
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