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How to know a poem is finished - How to write better poetry

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  • čas přidán 14. 08. 2024
  • Intro skip: 0:22 POW! (Click 'show more' to see more skip links and other useful info)
    Become a Poetry Geek: j.mp/poetryGeek
    Jen Campbell's mentioned video: • Video
    Other skip links:
    Eye Test: 2:22
    Magic Eye Test: 3:34
    Hearing Test: 4:42
    pH Test: 5:26
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    Acid Test: 11:02
    This video 'borrows heavily' cough*STEALS*ahem from Simon Armitage's article for the Guardian back in 2008. You can read it for yourself and avoid my rambling nonsense: www.theguardian...
    Anyway, this video explores the magic art of knowing when your poem is finished and you can stop editing it. Frankly, you can never know for sure, but at least this gives you something to hold on to.

Komentáře • 32

  • @abstractbybrian
    @abstractbybrian Před 4 lety +35

    I'm not sure I write poetry. I just write what I write. I love Charles Bukowski, it seems like he writes prose in verse format. I wrote this, is this poetry or what is it?
    THE NEIGHBORS
    are at it again?
    like a screaming soprano
    stabbing staccato
    singing arias in the air.
    waking me up at 3 am
    wrapping myself in a heavy blanket
    plugging my ears
    bracing myself to
    P
    M
    U
    J
    with the bang of the gun.

    • @L.AND007
      @L.AND007 Před 4 lety +4

      Please do share your writings

    • @milcentcuizon8286
      @milcentcuizon8286 Před 4 lety +3

      Intriguing

    • @swigswag3337
      @swigswag3337 Před 2 lety +1

      this was a year ago but i LOVE the effect you made with the JUMP

    • @gabicreightonbooksetc.
      @gabicreightonbooksetc. Před rokem

      The bang and JUMP effect is awesome. The anticipation really came across. I love it!❤️
      Keep writing.😊

    • @williamorpheus2635
      @williamorpheus2635 Před 5 měsíci

      I love his "Love Is a Dog From Hell"

  • @exesti1
    @exesti1 Před 3 lety +12

    I write to give release. It’s how I’m able to express feelings and thoughts I find difficult to express to others. So sometimes it’s clunky, and doesn’t fit the rules, but if I can get it out of me... it doesn’t hurt so much. I think if I chose to write with the hopes of publication or for the benefit of others, this might help. Thanks for the video though, I’ll watch some of your others and see what there is to see.

  • @deborahchinn2439
    @deborahchinn2439 Před rokem +1

    My singular complaint is that I am only now discovering your lovely, articulate and helpful channel! Thank you, sir!

  • @John-iy5bf
    @John-iy5bf Před 8 lety +3

    Thanks for this video. Know I want to go back and read my poetry and see which ones pass the test!

  • @Serendip98
    @Serendip98 Před rokem

    Interesting, I copied and pasted the article in order to re-read it quietly later. I saw that the English WP has a detailed article about Armitage, while the French seem to never have heard about him. Yet the few poems of him I read pleased me. Thanks for that discovery.

  • @ladybird491
    @ladybird491 Před 6 lety +7

    As a well educated poet, I use many techniques in my work. It only become clunky when you use them too close together and often the same device or to much of the same device.

  • @learningease
    @learningease Před 2 lety +1

    Thanks for teaching me

  • @vaguevocalist17
    @vaguevocalist17 Před 7 lety +6

    Art is never completed. It is only abandoned.
    I think this is an important thing to accept if any art is to be endeavored upon.
    I'm thoroughly enjoying your videos.
    I am struggling to find which voice of mine works best for readers. Would you be willing to read some of my work and tell me which style seems to land best?

  • @maiblack448
    @maiblack448 Před 2 lety

    Loved this. Excellent content with a really natural style and delivery. Thank you.

  • @ladybird491
    @ladybird491 Před 5 lety +2

    Great tips but I think more clarity need to be given to new poets. The secret ingredient is also life awareness, some life lesson, also grief inside the painting of the poem. Poets need to ask if their poem look like the mood the poem has or subject matter? For example my poem about me and my sister and friends, it is set on the page to to look like the poem is posing. I made the poem feel tight the poem is to appear in a print magazine this fall. I am an excellent poet. New poets need to read my work. I have completed several classes in poetry and two poetry mentorships and currently scheduled to have 5 poems published in a print magazine. I also have other publications, and awards. I enjoy hearing how other poetry teachers teach poetry. 😊

  • @DammikaChandani-ib4ku

    You are a great teacher. Well explained .

  • @mohamadkebbewar6827
    @mohamadkebbewar6827 Před 4 lety +1

    Thanks for posting this. Very inspiring.

  • @DalCecilRuno
    @DalCecilRuno Před 5 lety +1

    Very useful. Thank you!

  • @dpakholly
    @dpakholly Před 2 lety

    This is very helpful. Thanks!

  • @KamraEkke
    @KamraEkke Před 8 měsíci

    Sir tell us best book on poetry means tips to write poems

  • @abstractbybrian
    @abstractbybrian Před 4 lety +1

    Do you have the name of the wasp poem? I want to read that one, I love to study different styles and ways you can write a poem and you talk about this as a list poem. Thanks.

  • @Sila_is_ice_queen
    @Sila_is_ice_queen Před rokem

    thnk you so so much

  • @geofftaylor7541
    @geofftaylor7541 Před 2 měsíci

    Lizard standing still…..Awaits the taste of passing food…..Ever so quietly ……Geoff Taylor NZ

  • @ArizonaPoet
    @ArizonaPoet Před 8 lety +5

    Great site, but dude, to teach in rhyme and rhythm would honor poetry better, and stick more. To have a spiel in conversational language about poetry, without any poetry read, doesn't do the subject justice. Rewrite the script as a poem? Hindu textbooks are written in rhyme and rhythm, (with rhythm being the more important), why not ours? Perhaps poetry should be taught with poetic form? Emotional form? Structure? Balance? Symmetry. Keep up the good work. Regards, Bob Atkinson, Tucson, U.S.A.

    • @poesho
      @poesho  Před 8 lety +2

      Thanks for the comment, Bob. There is definitely more coming about rhythm and rhyme, but there is a logic to the order of the series so far. Stay tuned and hopefully it will become apparent.
      I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts.

    • @poesho
      @poesho  Před 8 lety

      +ArizonaPoet I've actually changed the order of the videos I record for the series as a result of this comment. Thanks again for sharing, Bob.

    • @ladybird491
      @ladybird491 Před 5 lety

      Not all poetry had to rhyme. I am having 5 poems publishing in a print magazine and not one rhyme.

  • @ankitachakrabortyart
    @ankitachakrabortyart Před 4 lety

    ❤️❤️❤️