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Through illuminating readings of one hundred poems - from Catullus to Alice Oswald, Shakespeare to Hera Lindsay Bird - Actions & Travels is an engaging introduction to how poetry works. Ten chapters look at simplicity and resonance, imagery and form, letters and odes, and much more. In Actions & Travels Anna Jackson explains how we can all read (and even write) poetry. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Anna Jackson may be familiar to some readers as the New Zealand author of The Bedmaking Competition, which won the 2018 Viva La Novella competition and the 2019 Mascara Avant-garde award for fiction. I reviewed it here. But Jackson is also a poet with a DPhil from Oxford and she's an associate professor at Victoria University of Wellington. Auckland University Press has published her six poetry collections, and she's also the author of a couple of impressive-sounding academic texts published by Routledge. But Actions and Travels, How Poetry Works is not an academic text. It's written for people like me, who don't feel confident about discussing poetry. This is the blurb:
It comes with this endorsement:
The Intro begins by acknowledging the doubts felt by the uninitiated:
She goes on to reassure the reader that no particular scholarly knowledge is needed to read any of the poems... and that her discussions about them are not themselves very scholarly. She writes about the poems she loves, through the lens of the her chapter headings. The poems range from canonical works to contemporary works, and include the lesser-known as well as the famous. The poems under discussion are printed in the book, but you can also read them at her website.
Chapter One: Simplicity & Resonance is about those poems that cast a spell on the reader. A poetic resonance holds a moment open, binding both the reader and the poem's speaker in time and space. I liked most of her choices which included Emily Brontë's ‘Spellbound’, Robert Frost's, ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ and ‘After Apple-Picking’ and Bill Manhire's, ‘Across Brooklyn’ but we nearly parted company over Rebecca Gayle Howell's ‘A Catalogue of What You Do Not Have’ which apparently went viral on Twitter during the pandemic. Jackson says that its absolute simplicity spoke to how undefined but how vast the sense of loss, and lack, has been for so many people. The poem consists only of its title, and one word: 'enough'. I absolutely cannot be bothered with something like that masquerading as poetry.
(Clearly, I am no expert, but this is 'a bone' I will quarrel over, and it's not the only one!)
A poem that has resonance for me is by Subhash Jaireth. It's dedicated to Tibetan monks and it's in his collection Aflame.
Moving on...
I had a lovely time reading Chapter Two: The ornate & the sumptuous. It is indeed a surprise to find that Beckett (yes, that Beckett, master of bleak modernism) liked reading Keats.
This chapter brings a discussion of Shakespeare and his sonnets, Sonnet 30 in particular. The one that begins:
I like what Jackson says about the poem's possibility of finding beauty in sorrow from the beginning, with the phrase 'sessions of sweet silent thought' beautiful in its alliteration and its syncopated rhythm slowing down the pentameter line.
Sonnet 30 resonates for me, just as discussed in Chapter One.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2022/07/01/actions-travels-how-poetry-works-by-anna-jac... ( )