{"product_id":"the-portable-poetry-workshop-9780230522305","title":"The Portable Poetry Workshop","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNigel McLoughlin is a poet whose work has been widely published over the last twenty years. His fifth collection, entitled \u003ci\u003eChora: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e,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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  SECTION I: FORM AND STRUCTURE  1. Varieties of The Sonnet; Nigel McLoughlin  2. Terza Rima; Martin Figura  3. The Villanelle; Siobhan Campbell  4. The Ballad; Paul Hardwick  5. Sestinas; Barbara Smith  6. The Ode; Tony Williams  7. Modern Syllabics; Claire Crowther  8. Blank Verse; Ros Barber  9. Vers Libre\/Free Verse; Todd Swift  10. The Prose Poem; Carrie Etter  11. Taking Form: Experimental and Avant Garde Forms; Robert Sheppard  12. Spatial Form; Mario Petrucci  SECTION II: TROPE AND DEVICE  13. Prosody; J. T. Welsch  14. Rhyme; Angela Topping  15. Simile; Andrea Holland  16. Metaphor; Nigel McLoughlin  17. How to Make a Woman Disappear: Extended Metaphor in 'Waiting for Bluebeard'; Helen Ivory  18. Irony is for Losers; Kevin Higgins  19. Dramatic Monologue; Barbara Smith  20. Humour in Poetry; Todd Swift  21. Imagery; Ashley Lister  22. Persona; Angela France   23. Voice; Andrea Holland  24. The Singing Within; Ann Drysdale  SECTION III: POETICS AND PRACTICE  25. Gerard Manley Hopkins: Sprung Rhythm, Inscape \u0026amp; Instress; Nigel McLoughlin  26. Towards a Reading of 'The Mountain' by Robert Frost; Siobhan Campbell  27. Amy Lowell: Common Sense Readings; Ashley Lister  28. Eliot and Pound: The Better Makers; Todd Swift  29. The Meaning of Meaning: William Empson; Claire Crowther  30. Gertrude Stein: Poetry \u0026amp; Grammar; J. T. Welsch  31. Charles Olson's Projective Verse: The Breath and the Line; Kate North  32. Frank O'Hara: Personism; Barbara Smith  33. William Carlos Williams: Music and Machines; Susan Millar DuMars  34. Maurice Scully and the Avant Garde; Paul Perry  35. When is a Riddle not a Riddle?; Helen Ivory  36. Muriel Rukeyser: The Social Role of Poetry; Claire Crowther.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767159521623,"sku":"9780230522305","price":30.43,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780230522305.jpg?v=1758712451","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-portable-poetry-workshop-9780230522305","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}