00:01:01 Introduction
00:05:40 What is Poetry?
00:09:25 How To Read A Poem
00:22:12 What Makes A Good Poem?
00:28:20 Subject
00:30:04 Context
00:33:37 Form & Structure
00:42:22 Rhythm, Meter & Rhyme
01:03:36 Language
01:23:24 EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT: YAYYYYY!

Sources and Further Reading:
Poetry Handbook: For Readers and Writers (1993) - Dinah Livingstone
Poetry For Dummies (2001) - The Poetry Center, John Timpane and Maureen Watts
The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet (2012) - Stephen Fry
Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense (2017) - Jenny Uglow
How Poetry Can Change Your Heart (2019) - Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley

Poetry Recommendations:
The Fat Black Woman’s Poems (1984) - Grace Nichols
Kid (1992) - Simon Armitage
Book of Matches (1993) - Simon Armitage
The World’s Wife (1999) - Carol Ann Duffy
Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World's Most Popular Poetry Website (2003) - edited by Diane Boller
Rapture (2005) - Carol Ann Duffy
Selected Poems (2006) - John Donne
Oxford Treasury of Sayings and Quotations (2011) - edited by Susan Ratcliffe - recommended by my friend, Cerian, who often uses it to spark her interest and go find whole poems she likes
Dogs Songs (2013) - Mary Oliver
Paper Aeroplanes (2014) - Simon Armitage
The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear (2015) - Edward Lear
Love Found (2017) - edited by Jessica Strand & Leslie Jonath
The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul (2017) - edited by William Sieghart
Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism (2018) - edited by Danielle Barnhart & Iris Mahan
The Poetry Pharmacy Returns: More Prescriptions for Courage, Healing and Hope (2019) - edited by William Sieghart

Websites & Poems:
Poetry Foundation: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
Idiosyncrasies of the Body (2008) - Diane Lockward http://www.sundresspublications.com/b...
Mrs Beast (1999) - Carol Ann Duffy
https://genius.com/Carol-ann-duffy-mr...

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