Scope and Contents

This book is an anthology of poems about family and life intended as reading for young people. Jonathan Price contributes a poem in the shape of an ice cream cone. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is a "how to" book for aspiring poets as the author explains various elements of poetry and supplies entertaining exercises to describe the concepts of meter, rhyme, form, diction and poetics to the reader. Review from Publishers Weekly described the following. In this delightfully erudite, charming and soundly pedagogical guide to poetic form, British actor (narrator of the Harry Potter movies, among other roles), novelist and secret poet Fry leads the reader through a series of lessons on meter, rhythm, rhyme and stanza length and reveals the structural logic of every imaginable poetic form, including the haiku, the ballad, the ode and the sonnet. Writing poetry, like any hobby, should be fun, Fry claims, and while talent is inborn, technique can be learned. Inviting readers to study the wealth of choices of form available in the world's major poetic traditions, Fry himself pens intentionally vapid yet entertaining poems that demonstrate each form's rules and patterning, and...