Actions and Travels: How Poetry Works

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A brilliant introduction to how poetry works through one hundred poems. 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.

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Anna Jackson is a New Zealand poet who grew up in Auckland and now lives in Island Bay, Wellington. She has a DPhil from Oxford and is an associate professor in English literature at Victoria University of Wellington. Anna made her poetry debut in AUP New Poets 1 before publishing six collections with Auckland University Press. Her most recent book, Pasture and Flock: New and Selected Poems, gathers work from her previous collections as well as twenty-five new poems. The book includes poems from Catullus for Children and I, Clodia, the two collections that engage with the work of Catullus, as well as poems about badminton, billiards, salty hair, takah, head lice, indexing, proof-reading, hens, truth and beauty. As a scholar, Anna Jackson is the author of Diary Poetics: Form and Style in Writers Diaries 19151962 (Routledge, 2010) and, with Charles Ferrall, Juvenile Literature and British Society, 18501950: The Age of Adolescence (Routledge, 2009).