THE FORMS OF POETRY Peter Abbs and John Richardson; 1990, Cambridge, CUP I was introduced to this book via its companion volume, The Forms of Narrative, which I was recommended by a teacher at my Phase One teaching practise school; I could just as easily have used this book for this exercise but I chose the volume, The Forms of Poetry, as I have found it more directly useful so far in my teaching, providing me …showed first 75 words of 1665 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1665 total…who can more easily pick and choose but, for the pupil, there is easily enough material in the book for a university course on creative writing! It would need a major commitment of time to be given over to poetry to be of full use as a student’s resource and surely the overcrowded NC would simply never allow such indulgence? [ BIBLIOGRAPHY Abbs, P., and Richardson, J., THE FORMS OF POETRY, 1990, Cambridge, C.U.P.