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On Poetry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wills, Jackie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry.
- Creative writing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (133 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Sheffield : Smith Doorstop, 2022.
- Summary:
- We begin with a drive to write something that's never been said before, to protest, to offload, to challenge or catch the zeitgeist. We imagine we write like the poets we admire. Slowly we learn the craft, understanding eventually that a writer is indentured for life. Drawing on decades of experience as a poet and tutor, this compelling book is part hands-on guide and part reflection on ways that poetry can make a difference to how we live. It is also a survey of many varied and inspirational writers, especially women poets from the end of the 20th century. The final section of this unique book offers starting points and resources that will prove essential for new and experienced poets alike. Jackie Wills is herself one of our most genuine and brilliantly insightful poets; and, as the sections on writing workshops show, she has helped people of all ages find their way into poetry.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part One: Reading Poems
- One: Led by the Language
- The Flea
- Thoughts after Ruskin
- Lapwings
- Building a Personal Canon
- Plath's Rhetoric
- Two: Deciding to Write
- Being Fifty
- How Black Women Writers Defined the 1980s
- The Fat Black Woman Goes Shopping
- Brief Lives
- Three: Heroines and Heroes
- More fun than Nigella
- Paying Homage
- Grief and Elegy
- 11 The Camp
- Four: Environment, Setting, Conditions
- Digging
- Re-writing Colonial History in Rime Royale
- The Doll's House
- Permission to Write on the Window
- Naming Home
- Pepys and a nightingale
- Five: What gives me the right?
- Hiss
- Make Something New
- The Fitting
- Finding Your Place
- The Fall
- Honouring an Ordinary Life
- Poetry of Critical Illness and Death
- How to Behave With The Ill
- The Details of Language
- Gazebo
- The Older Woman's Silence
- Lunch
- Six: Politics and Social Engagement
- The Poet as Witness
- Social Engagement and Necessary Poems
- On the 70th Anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising
- The Artists' Take
- Seven: Translation
- A Bengali Woman in Britain
- If it Wasn't for Translators
- At the Edge of a Field, a Pair of Shoes
- Part Two: Writing &
- Working with Poems
- Eight: Running a Workshop
- What Makes a Workshop?
- Organising It Yourself
- Working for Someone Else
- Momentum
- Keep Workshop Plans
- Caution!
- Evaluation
- Nine: The Model
- Critical Feedback Model
- Change
- Masterclass
- Exercise Model
- Ten: Planning
- 45 minutes
- Half-day
- Full Day
- Zoom Time
- Two Days to a Week
- A Course or Series
- A Residency
- Eleven: Developing Workshop Materials
- Inventing Exercises
- Set Your Own Boundaries
- Collect Poems
- Themes
- Props and Postcards
- Smells
- Workshop Basics.
- Why Write by Hand and Not on an iPad or Phone?
- Why I Use Models
- Twelve: Working in Schools and Colleges
- Primary Schools
- Secondary Schools
- Special Educational Needs
- Case Study: West Sussex County Council Gifted and Talented Scheme
- Case Study: Treloar College, Alton
- What Schools Want
- Thirteen: Writing Exercises and Prompts
- Creative Dialogue
- A True and Faithful Inventory Of The Goods Belonging To Dr. Swift, Vicar of Laracor. Upon Lending His House To The Bishop of Meath, Until His Own Was Built
- The Creative Power of Form
- Is It You or Are You Making It Up?
- Childhood
- Here and Now in the Material World
- Your People
- Zephyr
- The News
- Fourteen: Identity, Words in Gardens and Questions
- Identity - are you a shapeshifter, a boaster and who do you eat with?
- Words - the perspective of visual artists
- Asking Questions - Pablo Neruda's final collection
- Afterword
- Endnotes
- Quoted and Referenced Poems
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Further Resources for Writers.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Wills, Jackie On Poetry
- ISBN:
- 9781914914133
- OCLC:
- 1455761632
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