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How to Enjoy Poetry

Frank Skinner

'Someone recently said to me in reference to my poetry podcast that you'd think poetry would be more popular than ever in the twenty-first century because people don't have a lot of time and 'novels are often quite big while poems are often quite small'. I referred them to Doctor Who's Tardis.'

Frank Skinner wants you to read more poetry. Wait wait - don't stop reading. Whether you're a frequent poetry reader or haven't read any since sixth form Frank's infectious passion for language rhythm and metre will win you over and provide you with the basic tools you need to tackle any poem.

In this short easy-to-digest and delightful book Frank guides us through the twists and turns of 'Pad pad' by Stevie Smith a short seemingly simple poem that contains multitudes of meaning and a deceptive depth of emotion. Revel in the mastery of Stevie Smith's choice of words consider the eternal mystery of the speaker of the poem and be moved by rhyming couplets like you never have before.

Give it a go. You never know you might even enjoy it.

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  • Classification : General Non-Fiction
  • Pub Date : SEP 10, 2020
  • Imprint : Quercus
  • Page Extent : 64
  • Binding : HB
  • ISBN : 9781529412963
  • Price : INR 699
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Frank Skinner

Frank Skinner's live career began in 1987 when he spent £400 of his last £435 booking a room at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Four years later in 1991 he returned to the city and took home comedy's most prestigious prize, The Perrier Award. Frank created The Frank Skinner Show (ITV), which is widely credited as setting the tone for the modern comedic chat show. With David Baddiel, he created and presented both Fantasy Football and Baddiel & Skinner Unplanned, and, alongside The Lightning Seeds, the pair also wrote the seminal football anthem Three Lions. More recently, Frank created and hosted three series of Frank Skinner's Opinionated for BBC2, hosted seven series of BBC1's Room 101 and seven series of Portrait/Landscape Artist of the Year for Sky Arts. He has presented documentaries covering passions including Muhammad Ali (BBC1), Elvis (BBC4) and investigating the life of George Formby (BBC4). His Absolute Radio show has won three gold awards for Best Speech Programme (2011 and 2014) and Best Entertainment/Comedy Production (2017) at the ARIAs and saw him inducted into the Radio Academy Hall of Fame in December 2015. For BBC Radio 4, Frank hosted comedy panel show The Rest is History, and wrote and starred in comedy drama series Don't Start alongside Katherine Parkinson. As an author, Frank has published Dispatches from the Sofa; a collection of columns he wrote for The Times and has written two autobiographies, the first of which, Frank Skinner, was the top selling autobiography of 2002, spending 46 weeks in The Sunday Times Bestseller List. His latest stand-up show, Showbiz, has enjoyed a sold out national tour and subsequent sold out residency at the West End's Garrick Theatre.

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