By Peter Barry

Witty, direct and articulate, Peter Barry illustrates the foremost parts of poetry at paintings, overlaying many alternative forms of verse, from conventional types to leading edge models of the artwork, reminiscent of 'concrete' poetry, minimalism and word-free poems. The emphasis is on meanings instead of phrases, having a look past technical units like alliteration and assonance in order that poems are understood as dynamic buildings growing particular ends and effects.

The 3 sections disguise gradually increasing parts - 'Reading the traces' bargains with such fundamentals as imagery, diction and metre; 'Reading among the strains' matters broader issues, similar to poetry and context, and the examining of sequences of poems, whereas 'Reading past the traces' seems to be at 'theorised' readings and the 'textual genesis' of poems from manuscript to print.

Reading poetry is for college students, teachers and lecturers trying to find new methods of discussing poetry, and all these heavily attracted to poetry, even if as readers or writers.

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