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Poetic Forms
Brought to you by Mslexia magazine (www.mslexia.co.uk), a how-to guide to 15 of the main poetic forms, written by Linda France and illustrated with specially-commissioned examples from some of our best women poets, including Ruth Padel, Mimi Khalvati and Wendy Cope. You can shell out for the 366-page Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms – or download our handy wee guide. The choice is yours!
Contents include: villanelle, sestina, sonnet, free verse, haiku, tanka, quatrains, couplets, triplets, rondeau redouble, terza rima, pantoums, lists, ballades and concrete poetry.
‘A sonnet – hurrah! I would have liked there to be more good poems in traditional forms’ Wendy Cope (judge of Mslexia Women’s Poetry Competition 2014)
‘I like to see that a poet has engaged with form, and bothered to think about whether the poem should be divided into stanzas’ Kathleen Jamie (judge of Mslexia Women’s Poetry Competition 2013)
www.mslexia.co.uk
Contents include: villanelle, sestina, sonnet, free verse, haiku, tanka, quatrains, couplets, triplets, rondeau redouble, terza rima, pantoums, lists, ballades and concrete poetry.
‘A sonnet – hurrah! I would have liked there to be more good poems in traditional forms’ Wendy Cope (judge of Mslexia Women’s Poetry Competition 2014)
‘I like to see that a poet has engaged with form, and bothered to think about whether the poem should be divided into stanzas’ Kathleen Jamie (judge of Mslexia Women’s Poetry Competition 2013)
www.mslexia.co.uk
73 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 13, 2015
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March 7, 2016
Good little reference book explaining some of the major poetic forms, including excellent example poems.
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