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Actions and Travels: How Poetry Works

Jackson, Anna

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Through illuminating readings of one hundred poems – from Catullus to Alice Oswald, Shakespeare to Hera Lindsay Bird – Actions & Travels is an engaging introduction to how poetry works. Ten chapters look at simplicity and resonance, imagery and form, letters and odes, and much more. In Actions & Travels Anna Jackson explains how we can all read (and even write) poetry.

See Anna’s reading list for Actions & Travels over on her website: www.annajackson.nz

Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Imprint: Auckland University Press
Publication date: 10/03/2022

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Actions and Travels: How Poetry Works
by Anna Jackson
Review by Bel

The opportunity to unpack poetry with NZ poet Anna Jackson is an absolute treat, in this accessible and delightfully meandering introduction. It includes examples from Aotearoa and around the world, the modern and the classics. If you haven't read a poem since high school, or tried to but felt you were missing something, or even wanted to have a go at writing one - this is a brilliant place to start. The writing prompts that accompany each chapter are a wonderful invitation to play. Highly recommend!

ISBN: 9781869409180 Category: Tag