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Product details
- ISBN 9781841598000
- Weight: 235g
- Dimensions: 113 x 165mm
- Publication Date: 07 May 2015
- Publisher: Everyman
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Two contemporary poets turns their attention to poetry as a living, rhythmic, often musical performance. Their wide-ranging selections encompass epic, folk songs, the Romantics, the Victorians, poets of the Harlem Renaissance and contemporary hip hop. For many readers, the most familiar poetic metre is the iambic pentameter of Shakespeare, but this only scratches the surface of the extraordinary diversity of rhythmic patterns that poets have employed over the ages. Measure for Measure has sections on Accentual Metre (Kipling, Bishop, Auden), Trochees (Blake, Dickinson, Dorothy Parker), Anapests (Byron, Frost, Langston Hughes); other sections cover iambs, ballads, and more exotic metres like amphibrachs, dipodics, hendecasyllabics and sapphics
Annie Finch is the author of fifteen books of poetry, translation and criticism. Her collected poems, Spells, was published last year. She lives in Maine. Canadian performance and slam poet Alexandra Oliver has published several volumes of verse including Where the English Housewife Shines and Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway
