Friday 12 December 2014

Literary Forms with Poetic Implications: (1) The Sestude

The Sestude is perhaps a 'literary' rather than a 'poetic' form since it can be a prose piece, but it seemed a shame not to include it. The stipulated number of words is 62 and you may not be particularly surprised to learn that it was created by the ‘26’ collective. I came across it here, where there is a link to Sara Sheridan's blog post about the project.

Thursday 18 September 2014

Resources (1): Update on Books on Form - a post in progress

Thursday 21 August 2014

New Forms (17): ZaniLa Rhyme

I was looking for a form with minimal rhyme and this is what I discovered instead on the Shadow Poetry site. I look forward to experimenting ...

Wednesday 6 August 2014

New Forms (16): Erasure Poems - not so new, in fact!

This post was sparked by a conversation on LinkedIn, started by .

For a podcast by Ron Silliman for the American Poetry Foundation on the Erasure Poem, click here.


Wednesday 12 February 2014

Poetics (2): Ramage, coined by Robert Bly

Background ...

I was interested to read about Robert Bly's notion of what he has named the Ramage. This feature of his poetry concerns the musicality of sound produced by the 'union of a consonant and a vowel' (e.g. an or er) within his eight-line stanzas.


  • example on the web e.g. the third of Four Ramages by Robert Bly 

Tuesday 11 February 2014

Welsh Poetry Forms (1): Gwawdodyn Hir

You will find a link here to Robert Lee Brewer's post on the Welsh syllabic Gwawdodyn Hir poetry form. It looks fun to try! There is more information here