The Art of Space: how to let a poem breathe — with Don Paterson

This class is the second of a series of three webinars with Don Paterson. You can purchase a ticket to an individual webinar, or you can book a ticket for all three at a reduced price. If you would like to purchase tickets to all three webinars, please purchase your ticket from the 3-in-1 button below The Joy of Scansion.

Poems often fail not through their lack of imagination but because of their lousy use of space. They can be as overstuffed as a cluttered attic, or as empty as a corporate meeting room. In this webinar, Don Paterson will show how achieving a natural balance between content and function, something and nothing, printed word and white page, active event and weak duration, lexis and syntax, can shape and hugely enrich the resonant space of the poem, and radically increase the sophistication of how its details interact. Don will show…