New Form 40: the Onegin stanza, aka the Pushkin Sonnet

 The Onegin Stanza or Pushkin Sonnet. 

New Form (39): The Drabble

This is not a poetry form, but I could not resist including it as it requires concision and imagination. 

You can read about the Drabble here. 

You can read a brilliant prize-winning Drabble by Juliet Wilson here on her Crafty Green Poet site.

New Forms (38): The Bob and Wheel

You can read about this poetic form here on Marian Christie's blog. 

I should add that this is 'new-to-me' form as it has old roots. 

New Forms (37): Kintsugi Poems

Kintsugi poems. I became aware of these thanks to a poem, 'Menu', by Geoffrey Winch in Reach Poetry #287.

New Forms (36): The Essence Poem

A description, with examples, of this pithy little number known as Essence poetry, created by Emily Romano, can be found here on the Shadow Poetry site. 

New Forms (35): The Duplex

This form, invented by Jericho Brown, combines elements of the Sonnet and the Ghazal.

You can find an example here.

New Forms (34): Minison

I have just encountered the Minison Project here, thanks to Trish Hopkinson's NO FEE Submission call page.  

Do take a look at this brief form, described as 'Shakespeare's Sonnet Reimagined'. 

 

New Forms (33): Roseate Sonnet

 

Details of the Roseate Sonnet can be found here. This Indian variation on European Sonnet forms was developed by Dr. A.V. Koshy in December 2012.

New Forms (32): The haiflu

 #haiflu

 

 

The haiflu is taking off big time, and although I am presenting it as a new form, it is has really become a community enterprise initiated by Liz Torc, revolving around lockdown Haiku and photographs. We are being invited to post any we write online with a hashtag so that others can find them.

 

 

New Forms (31): the Andaree

The Andaree... details can be found here.

New Forms (30): the Suffolk Cando

'... so how did it get so green?' Dean Parkin (Suffolk Cando)

Have you heard of the Suffolk Cando? Poet, Dean Parkin invented the form for the Make, Do & Friends projects, organised by Suffolk Artlink and the Rural Coffee Caravan. He hopes it will help us to celebrate Suffolk Day on 21 June.

Dean describes the Suffolk Cando as a cross between a limerick and a haiku, with added Suffolk dialect thrown in. The form usually has four lines. It can include rhymes 'here and there'.

One line is usually a question, and while the inventor of the form would like to encourage a bit of 'Suffolk', he adds that 'any old dialect would do (or speech).'

The form will be premiered tomorrow on Radio Suffolk (UK) on Friday 19 June 2020 on the Lesley Dolphin show at 2.30pm.

Dean's examples:

SUDDENLY SUMMER
Early spring
everything budding
we've had no rain
so how did it get so green?

SUFFIN FOR NUFFIN
They say wos it all about?
Well, I dunt really noo.
You can do the hookey cookey
but just yew mind how yew gew.

Posted with Dean's permission.

Poetics (6): the Epigraph

I suspect epigraphs are like a certain yeast-based spread in the sense that you either love or hate them. Dave Bonta and those who comment on his words have listed a number of reasons for their inclusion: you can find the discussion here on Via Negativa.

New Forms (29): the 821

Tyne Bridge at Night

The 821: you can read about it here.

Examples can be found here. 

Resources (2): Sestina Template

This can be found here.

Poetics (5): the Double dactyl

Do click the link here to read more about the Double dactyl on The London Grip pages for the time being.

New Forms (27) and (28): The Octolune... and the Octoluneo

This new poetic form, which addresses or invokes the moon, was invented by Simon Zonenblick. If you click through to Simon's post and scroll down a little, you will also be able to read about the spin-off form, the Octoluneo.

You can find details of the Octolune on the Write Out Loud site here.

Alison Lock has included an Octolune in her new collection, Revealing the Odour of Earth (Calder Valley Poetry, 2017). Hannah Stone alludes to the poem in her review here on the Algebra of Owls site.

New Forms (26): Newspaper Blackout Poems

As far as I can see, these are the same as erasure poems, except that you (only) use text from a newspaper.

See here. 

New Forms (25): The Golden Shovel

This not-quite golden (?peat) shovel is displayed in the Somerset Levels, 
having come from the China Clay Museum in Cornwall

24 November 2017 news update: there is now an international Golden Shovel competition run by Roosevelt University for young people and international undergraduate students: details here. 

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I attended a poetry workshop and reading at the ¡Cornucopia! Alde Valley Festival on Saturday. One of the poems read out to us by Sue Wallace-Shaddad was in the Golden Shovel form. This was new to me. Its name immediately brought to mind not only Wordsworth's 'host of golden daffodils', but a diverse array of other 'golden' items, rules and concepts - the goose's golden eggs, the Golden Section, a golden handshake and so on.

The image that lodged most firmly in my mind was the 'Golden Marshalltown' trowel, the prized possession of an archaeologist, in The Golden Marshalltown: A Parable of the the Archaeology of the 1980s by Kent V. Flannery (American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 84, No. 2, June, 1982, 265-278): you can read about the article here. 

I am still trying to work out the connection between the trowel and the shovel since both (like the pen: remember Heaney) can be used for digging.

Here are a few links to websites about the new poetry form...

• the poem by Terrance Hayes that gave the form its name.
• about Terrance Hayes, the creator of the form and about Gwendolyn Brooks, in whose honour the form was created.  
• concerning the rules, as laid out by Robert Lee Brewer
• The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks, edited by Dr. Peter Kahn , Ravi Shankar and Patricia Smith. About the volume's launch - here.
• 'Prayer' by Carolyn Oliver, a Golden Shovel poem using lines from Emily Dickinson, on the Frontier Poetry site. 
• Poetry School review by Bridget Minamore of Seasonal Disturbances by Karen McCarthy Woolf (Carcanet). The review mentions the poet's Golden Shovel poems which feature in the book.
• Excellent advice and help from Peter Kahn and the Young Poets' Network - here.  

Resources (2): Martyn Crucefix on 14 Ways to Write an Ekphrastic Poem

Martyn Crucefix has written an excellent blog post here.

For the Rattle ekphrastic challenges see here. 

New Forms (24): The Cherita

The Cherita: a compact and pleasing 'short form', with a sense of narrative at its heart.

• 'collecting dulse' [22/2017] has been published in The Cherita #3 (eBook 2017 vol i. Find Me) p.188...

Elgol, Skye shorelines