Literary Forms with Poetic Implications: (1) The Sestude

The Sestude is perhaps a 'literary' rather than a 'poetic' form since it can be a prose piece, but it seemed a shame not to include it. The stipulated number of words is 62 and you may not be particularly surprised to learn that it was created by the ‘26’ collective. I came across it here, where there is a link to Sara Sheridan's blog post about the project.

• Sestude as a suggested term in Collins Online Dictionary
• Sestude in Looking Glass Language
• An Alphabet of Sestudes for St Feock by Penelope Shuttle
  

Resources (1): Update on Books on Form - a post in progress

• The Book of Forms: a Handbook of Poetics Including Odd and Invented Forms  Lewis Putnam Turco (UPNE 2012)

• • Covered in Rhyme (Poetry: its Forms & Terms) Alan J. Carter and Bernard M. Jackson (QQ Press in two parts, UK, £6 incl. of p&p. Rest of world postage on request). Part 1, by Bernard, covers 37 forms. Part 2, by Alan, is a glossary of literary and poetic terms.Muse & Metre Dr. H. Tulsi, ed. of Metverse Muse (India) - and Bernard M. Jackson

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  The Book of New Poetry Forms Wendy Webb (Obooko, Wendy Webb Books)Two books that will be interesting to read from the point of view of their differing theses, one being Moving Words, Forms of English Poetry Derek Attridge (OUP). 242 Mirror Poems and Reflections Dr Marc L. Latham (Kindle or print edition)

  You Only Guide Me by Surprise: Poetry and the Dolphin's Turn Peter Sacks. The Judith Lee Stronach Memorial Lecture on the Teaching of Poetry, delivered on 7 May 2010 by Peter Sacks.

   

   
  
  • The Book of Forms: a Handbook of Poetics Including Odd and Invented Forms Lewis Putnam Turco (UPNE 2012)

  
  

  • Covered in Rhyme (Poetry: its Forms & Terms) Alan J. Carter and Bernard M. Jackson (QQ Press in two parts, UK, £6 incl. of p&p. Rest of world postage on request). Part 1, by Bernard, covers 37 forms. Part 2, by Alan, is a glossary of literary and poetic terms.
    

  
  

  • Muse & Metre Dr. H. Tulsi, ed. of Metverse Muse (India) - and Bernard M. Jackson

  
  

  • The Book of New Poetry Forms Wendy Webb (Obooko, Wendy Webb Books)                                      

  • Two books that will be interesting to read from the point of view of their differing theses, one being Moving Words, Forms of English Poetry Derek Attridge (OUP).

  
  

  •  242 Mirror Poems and Reflections Dr Marc L. Latham (Kindle or print edition)

  
  

• You Only Guide Me by Surprise: Poetry and the Dolphin's Turn Peter Sacks. The Judith Lee Stronach Memorial Lecture on the Teaching of Poetry, delivered on 7 May 2010 by Peter Sacks.

    

   

New Forms (17): ZaniLa Rhyme

I was looking for a form with minimal rhyme and this is what I discovered instead on the Shadow Poetry site. I look forward to experimenting ...

New Forms (16): Erasure Poems - not so new, in fact!

This post was sparked by a conversation on LinkedIn, started by Sandra P.

For a podcast by Ron Silliman for the American Poetry Foundation on the Erasure Poem, click here.

Poetics (2): Ramage, coined by Robert Bly

Background ...

I was interested to read about Robert Bly's notion of what he has named the Ramage. This feature of his poetry concerns the musicality of sound produced by the 'union of a consonant and a vowel' (e.g. an or er) within his eight-line stanzas.

• example on the web e.g. the third of Four Ramages by Robert Bly 

• More examples of Ramages

Welsh Poetry Forms (1): Gwawdodyn Hir

You will find a link here to Robert Lee Brewer's post on the Welsh syllabic Gwawdodyn Hir poetry form. It looks fun to try! There is more information here.