Greek Verse – The Poetician

“Then There’s Rhythm”

(If you can keep your ancient Greek FEET)

In her book 52 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A POEM published by Chatto and Windus in 2002 Ms Ruth Padel chooses as her first poem a piece called ‘Mrs Noah: Taken After the Flood’ by Jo Shapcott. Here it is: I can’t sit still these days.

The Journey of a Dunce?

OR: How a mere pith-helmeted end-rhymster is almost lost in a jungled swamp of syl-la-bab-ble

In the chapter Reading Poetry Today in her book 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem, published in 2002 by Chatto and Windus, Ruth Padel talks about modern poetry published in Britain that is written in English. She promises to show how, technically, the sound supports the sense (p6) in a partnership;