Want to improve your craft? Then this is a good place to start.
He currently lives in British Columbia, Canada..
He has published four collections of Poetry: naked beauty (Blue & Yellow Dog Press), The Shepherd\'s Elegy (The Knives, Forks and Spoons Press), Dark Age (Grey Borders) and Twenty Moments that Changed the World (Locofo/Moria Poetry), as well as a novella, The Duck Lake Chronicles (Quattro Books) and a novel, Talking to Wendigo (Turnstone Press) which was short-listed for an Arthur Ellis Award. com), an online magazine of experimental poetry. ditchpoetry.
Goodman is a Pushcart Prize nominee and the past editor of ditch, (www.
About the Author: John C.
Whether you are a beginning poet or an experienced writer, Poetry: Tools & Techniques will help you improve your craft. - and shows how they affect poetic language. - the actual techniques and devices that go into making a poem, right down to the nuts and bolts structural parts of language - the conjunctions, prepositions, articles, etc.
Poetry: Tools & Techniques provides an introduction to the basic elements of Poetry - metaphor, imagery, punctuation, syntax, rhythm, etc.
The book encourages poets to explore the limits of language and discover how to make language speak beyond itself - to make language say what it was not designed to say, to express the inexpressible.
Poetry: Tools & Techniques investigates the structure of language and how it conveys meaning - and from that shows how to create and use a poetic, a philosophy of language, to shape and inform your writing.
Poetry: Tools & Techniques is a starting point for writers to find their own direction rather than a definitive textbook on how to write in the proper and approved manner.
In plain, straight-forward language, this Practical Guide introduces the devices and techniques used by successful poets.
Poems do not simply happen, they are made - Poetry: Tools & Techniques shows how to make them.
Want to improve your craft? Then this is a good place to start
