The Craft: A Guide to Making Poetry Happen in the 21st Century
The Craft: A Guide to Making Poetry Happen in the 21st Century
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The Craft brings together some of contemporary poetry's most skilled practitioners to offer ideas on the making of poems. The book covers practical techniques - putting poems together, mastering poetic forms and titling poems, the art of long sequences - and essays on using technology , truth and fabrication, and performing poems.
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The Craft: A Guide to Making Poetry Happen in the 21st Century by Rishi Dastidar
The Craft brings together some of contemporary poetry's most skilled practitioners to offer ideas on the making of poems. The book covers practical techniques - putting poems together, mastering poetic forms and titling poems, the art of long sequences - and essays on using technology , truth and fabrication, and performing poems.
Rishi Dastidar’s poetry has been published by the Financial Times and BBC amongst many others. He is a fellow of The Complete Works, and a consulting editor at The Rialto magazine. A poem from his debut collection Ticker-tape was included in The Forward Book of Poetry 2018, and his second collection, Saffron Jack, was published in the UK by Nine Arches Press in 2020. He is also editor of The Craft: A Guide to Making Poetry Happen in the 21st Century (Nine Arches Press), and co-editor of Too Young, Too Loud, Too Different: Poems from Malika’s Poetry Kitchen (Corsair).
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781911027850 |
| ISBN 10 | 1911027859 |
| Title | The Craft: A Guide to Making Poetry Happen in the 21st Century |
| Author | Rishi Dastidar |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Nine Arches Press |
| Year published | 2019-11-14 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |