The Craft: A Guide to Making Poetry Happen in the 21st Century - Softcover

Edited By Rishi Dastidar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1911027859 ISBN 13: 9781911027850

Publisher: Nine Arches Press, 2019

Synopsis

The Craft is an indispensable guide to both the how and why of poetic craft in the 21st century, and essential writing-desk companion for poets at all stages. The book covers practical techniques the nuts of bolts of putting poems together, mastering poetic forms such as sonnets, sestinas, prose poems and golden shovels, how to choose titles for your poems and the art of long sequences. It also explores the idea of craft itself - knowing how pentameters dance is important, but by no way is it the only dimension of craft that the poet starting out today has to consider. What about sound and the skills involved in performing your work? What about truth and fabrication, and the ethics of using real life in your work? What about the politics of the word craft itself? With essays on poetry from Moniza Alvi, Dean Atta, Liz Berry, Caroline Bird, Malika Booker, Debjani Chatterjee, Jane Commane, Rishi Dastidar, Carrie Etter, Will Harris, Tania Hershman, Peter Kahn, Gregory Leadbetter, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Roy McFarlane, Harry Man, Claire Pollard, Peter Raynard, Roger Robinson, Jacqueline Saphra, Joelle Taylor, Marvin Thompson, Julia Webb, and Antosh Wojcik.

About this title

About the Author

Rishi Dastidar’s poetry has been published by the Financial Times, New Scientist and the BBC, amongst many others. His third collection, Neptune’s Projects (Nine Arches Press), was longlisted for the Laurel Prize, and a poem from it was included in The Forward Book of Poetry 2024. 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). He reviews poetry for The Guardian and is chair of Wasafiri, the leading magazine of international contemporary writing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Nine Arches Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1911027859
• ISBN 13: 9781911027850
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220