Writing and Workshopping Poetry: A Constructive Introduction

By Stephen Guppy

Book Overview

Most texts on creative writing emphasize either sources of inspiration or strategies for editing. The process of getting from initial inspiration to final draft isn't often dealt with in any practical way. Writing and Workshopping Poetryfocuses on all three phases of the process of composition: finding the material; building and developing the poem from rough draft to complete work; editing and refining. The text offers everything students and instructors need: extensive notes written in an accessible, conversational style; seventy-five writing exercises; and about a hundred poems chosen from a wide range of sources, from sixteenth-century sonnets to experimental constrained forms, with an emphasis on exciting poems by contemporary American and Canadian poets. Each chapter concludes with a brief, point-form summary of major learning objectives as well as a review list of useful terms.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554813085
• ISBN13: 9781554813087
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Broadview Press Inc
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"