Dai George

Gebundenes Buch

How to Think Like a Poet

The Poets That Made Our World and Why We Need Them

Beschreibung

An entertaining guide to history's most influential and inspiring poets - from Homer and Sappho to Shakespeare and Frank O'Hara.

Autor

Dai George is a poet, novelist, critic and academic. His first poetry collection, The Claims Office, was an Evening Standard book of the year and his second, titled Karaoke King, was published by Seren in June 2021. His first novel, The Counterplot, was published as an Audible Original in 2019, and he is currently working on his second. He is the former reviews editor of Poetry London and has taught poetry and creative writing for many years at various universities. He is currently Lecturer in Creative Arts and Humantieis at UCL. His poetry has appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, including Poetry Review, Poetry Wales and Islands Are But Mountains: New Poetry from the United Kingdom. His criticism and non-fiction features in popular and academic forums including the Guardian, The White Review, and Cambridge Quarterly. Alongside Sarah Howe and Vidyan Ravinthiran, George was a founding editor of the online poetry journal Prac Crit, which drew a large global readership across its five-year lifespan.

Produktdetails

• How To Think
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 138mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 432g
• ISBN-13: 9781399408301
• ISBN-10: 1399408305
• Artikelnr.: 69671532

Rezensionen

An entertaining guide to the rhyme and reason of poetry… capacious and curious. George has an admirable ability to get to the heart of things in just a few lines. Dai George distils a lifetime's poetic thinking and reading into this warm, accessible book.