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On Poetry
On Poetry | Glyn Maxwell
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On Poetry, the latest addition to the Oberon Masters series, is a collection of short essays and reflections on poetry from the acclaimed British poet Glyn Maxwell. These essays illustrates Maxwell’s poetic philosophy, that the greatest verse arises from a harmony of mind and body, and that poetic forms originate in human necessities – breath, heartbeat, footstep, posture. He speaks of his inspirations, his models, and takes us inside the strange world of the Creative Writing Class, where four young hopefuls grapple with love, sex, cheap wine and hard work. Illustrated with examples from canonical poets, this is a beautiful and accessible guide to the most ancient and sublime of the realms of literature. 'The most compelling, original, charismatic and poetic guide to poetry that I can remember. A handbook written from the heart by one of the true modern masters of the craft.' Simon Armitage
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Kanarthi
On Poetry | Glyn Maxwell

If in the great family of the writing arts Poetry is the hard-up eldest son and Screenplay the little bro who's loaded, nonetheless these two are close, enjoy each other's company, they share longer walks than either shares with Playwriting or Fiction, all the difficult middle children. #poetry #fiction #writing

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Kanarthi
On Poetry | Glyn Maxwell
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What evolutionary psychologists -- and I -- believe is that aesthetic preferences, those things we find beautiful, originate not it what renders life delightful or even endurable, but in what makes life possible