The poet's toolbox

This innovative on-line course combines video and animation techniques to present the tools used by modern poets in a friendly and professional style.

To try a free demo of the Toolbox, register or click the button opposite.

Course Outline:

• Introduction - What is poetry?
• The poet's tools
• Meter
  English as a stress-timed language
  Metrical feet
• Form (traditional forms)
  Sonnets
  Blank verse
  Free verse
  Haiku...
• Layout
  Punctuation
  Stanzas
  Linebreaks
  Enjambment...
• Rhyme
  Full rhyme
  Imperfect rhyme
  Assonance, consonance & alliteration...
• Sound
  How sounds give coherence to a poem
• Conclusion

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Did you know...?

• English speakers have natural rhythm
• Meter has an emotional effect on the reader
• Layout can affect the speed at which a poem is read
• Rhyme and sounds give coherence to a poem

Mentor

Gwyneth Box writes poetry and non-fiction in both Spanish and English and is an experienced commercial and literary translator. She has had photo-reports and articles published in international magazines and has won a number of UK poetry awards. As well as translations for web, screen and stage, she has translated ten children's books for the independent Spanish publisher, Topka, who have recently published her own bilingual children's picture-poem book Bubbles / Pompas. She is a qualified teacher, a Swanwick Writers' Summer School tutor, and a member of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists.