15 January meeting: Poetry Workshop, by Jonty Driver

Jonty has sent me this summary of his plans for his Poetry Workshop on 15 January:

"We are going to be looking at a number of poems by a variety of hands (some well-known, some not) as a way of thinking about the how of poetry as well as the what: about how poems are made, as an aid to understanding what effect they have on the reader or listener, what they are communicating. Jonty is especially interested in the division of poems into lines (the big distinction between verse and prose) and the balance of lineation and syntax, but he will also direct our attention to rhythm and metre, rhyme and off-rhyme, and stanza-form. He hopes this workshop will be more like a seminar than a lecture.

The poems - or extracts from poems - he will be using as examples will be in an attachment which will be circulated before the meeting;  will those member s of the WLS who have printers please bring a copy to the workshop?  Jonty will print some extra copies."