Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers

<p><b>Shortlisted for the United Kingdom Literary Association (UKLA) Academic Book Award 2023</b><br><i><br>A Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers</i> generates imaginative encounters with poetry and invites educators to practice a range of poetry exercises in order to inform instructional approaches to reading and writing. Guided by pedagogical principles prompted by their readings of Wallace Stevens' Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Maya Pindyck and Ruth Vinz provide critical discussion of prominent literacy practices in secondary classrooms and offer alternative approaches to encountering a text. They do this by way of experimental readings of Wallace Stevens' poem toward a set of thirteen pedagogical principles that anchor a pedagogy of poetic practices. The book also offers invitational exercises the authors' own engagements with poetry practices as well as student examples visual modes of theorizing and a gathering of relevant resources compiled by two classroom teachers. This is a book for secondary English teachers teaching artists English educators college writing professors readers and writers of poetry - both existing and aspirational - and any educator interested in poetry's capacities to pedagogically inform their subject matter and/or literacy practices.</p>