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Tools & Techniques: A Practical Guide to Writing Engaging Poetry

John C Goodman

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Gneiss Press
22 October 2011

Language: reference & general; Creative writing & creative writing guides

Want to improve your craft? Then this is a good place to start. Poems do not simply happen, they are made - Poetry: Tools & Techniques shows how to make them. In plain, straight-forward language, this practical guide introduces the devices and techniques used by successful poets. Poetry: Tools & Techniques is a starting point for writers to find their own direction rather than a definitive textbook on how to write in the proper and approved manner. Poetry: Tools & Techniques investigates the structure of language and how it conveys meaning - and from that shows how to create and use a poetic, a philosophy of language, to shape and inform your writing. The book encourages poets to explore the limits of language and discover how to make language speak beyond itself - to make language say what it was not designed to say, to express the inexpressible. Poetry: Tools & Techniques provides an introduction to the basic elements of poetry - metaphor, imagery, punctuation, syntax, rhythm, etc. - the actual techniques and devices that go into making a poem, right down to the nuts and bolts structural parts of language - the conjunctions, prepositions, articles, etc. - and shows how they affect poetic language. Whether you are a beginning poet or an experienced writer, Poetry: Tools & Techniques will help you improve your craft.

By: John C Goodman
Imprint: Gneiss Press
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 150g
ISBN: 9780986965722
ISBN 10: 0986965723
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 22 October 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

John C. Goodman is a Pushcart Prize nominee and the past editor of ditch, (www.ditchpoetry.com), an online magazine of experimental poetry. He has published four collections of poetry: naked beauty (Blue & Yellow Dog Press), The Shepherd's Elegy (The Knives, Forks and Spoons Press), Dark Age (Grey Borders) and Twenty Moments that Changed the World (Locofo/Moria Poetry), as well as a novella, The Duck Lake Chronicles (Quattro Books) and a novel, Talking to Wendigo (Turnstone Press) which was short-listed for an Arthur Ellis Award. He currently lives in British Columbia, Canada.