
"Your front row seat at the crafting of a poem" ALI WHITELOCK
Rosanna McGlone follows the outstanding success of her The Process of Poetry--a series of interviews with major British poets--with these fascinating discussions with eleven leading Australian poets about their craft, about the state of contemporary poetry, the place of poetry in our times, and their tips for writers and readers.
Eleven poets, masters of their crafts; eleven poems, representing the range of contemporary and classic forms; eleven small odysseys from first inklings to finished
works. Eleven different ways, at least, to pay the kind of close attention to language and line and form and rhythm and thought and sense and world and self and other—to
all that the making of a poem entails.
George Szirtes, winner of the 2004 TS Eliot Prize and one of the poets featured in The Process of Poetry, has this to say about The Making of a Poem.
"In following the development of a poem one learns not only how the mind moves and makes its choices but also how a work of art comes to be what it is. The drafts of Yeats, Eliot, Keats and Milton are wonderful studies of how language continually refines and looks to perfect itself in the face of experience. This selection of drafts and finished works from contemporary Australian poets, together with their responses to intelligent questions, is just as enlightening as the first such volume was, albeit in a different yet just as complex cultural context. For those coming to poetry for the first time or looking to refresh their understanding of the art, this book of curated interviews is an important and highly valuable
companion as well as a potential apprenticeship."
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