This collection explores the teaching of poetry at university. Structured around three sub-sections, Poetic Close Reading, Poetic Periodicity and Poetic Toolkits, the contributors draw on a range of critical perspectives to engage with topics such as ecology, queerness, race and digitality, and use their expertise to establish links with sociology, creative writing and other disciplines in the academy. Chapters are aimed at a diverse body of learners, from workshop participants to taught postgraduates, and can serve as useful primers for lectures, modules, and educational training sessions in higher education. Situated at the cutting edge of the field, the book will invigorate pedagogical approaches to poetry and poetics for a new generation of teachers, students, and readers.
1 Introduction - Richard Stacey.- Part I: Close Reading.- 2 From School-Room to Seminar: Understanding a Poem - Richard Stacey.- 3 Attuning Ourselves to Tunes: Lessons in Prosody - David Nowell Smith.- 4 Rhyme with Good Reason: Teaching the Poetics of Close Reading and Rhyme - JuEunhae Knox.- 5 Decisions, Decisions, Dictionaries: Teaching Difficult Poetry - Mia Gaudern.- 6 'The river still ribboning': Participles, Syntax and Creative Pedagogy - Dai George.- Part II: Conceptual Reading.- 7 Poetic Invitations - Denis Flannery.- 8 Landmark Poetics: Textures and Texts - Deirdre Osborne.- 9 Communal Close Reading: Interactive Methods and Practices - Lyndsay Miller.- Part III: Contextual Reading.- 10 Reading Early Modern Sonnets in the Queer Classroom - Kit Hevan.- 11 Narrowing Focus: Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry - Cassie Ulph.- 12 The Aesthetics of Abolition: Reading the Anti-Slavery Dramatic Monologue - Muireann O'Cinneide.- Part IV: Critical Reading.- 13 Poetic Necessity: Sociological Poetry and Pedagogy - Phil Crockett Thomas.- 14 Afterword - Sandeep Parmar.
Richard Stacey is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow, UK. He has published on Shakespeare and early modern drama in journals including Shakespeare Survey and Studies in Philology, and has co-edited the collection Shakespeare and the Shape of Words with Adrian Streete. He has written on a range of pedagogical topics, including co-created curricula, collaborative teaching and Generative AI, and has provided a new introduction to Shakespeare s Henry VI Part 3 for the Oxford University Press series, Oxford World Classics.
