Music Lessons: The Newcastle Poetry Lectures
In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university.
In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was born in Sussex and died in Italy when his sailing boat overturned while returning from a visit to Byron. A radical thinker and social campaigner, Shelley wrote some of the finest lyric verse in the English language which confirms his standing as a major figure in Romantic literature.
British poetry is enjoying a period of exceptional richness and variety. This is exciting but it’s also confusing, and throws up the need for an enthusiastic guide that can explain and celebrate the many parallel poetry projects now underway.
This selection includes work previously unpublished in English as well as poems drawn from all four of his previous UK collections: ‘The Same Sea in Us All’, ‘The Wandering Border’, ‘Through the Forest’ and ‘Evening Brings Everything Back’.
Written by a prize-winning poet, this book takes the reader through the entire poetry writing process, all the while promoting individual creativity and expression.