Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Great Regulars: It seems to combine elements both from

that safe-as-houses mediaeval form, the sestina, and from the intricate pantoum: its accumulative structure also suggests folk-tales such as The House That Jack Built. The invented form is solidly put together, with its dense packing of repeated lines and end-words. But, as the poem literally builds itself, adding an extra line stanza by stanza, it lures the reader constantly to the invisible and illusory.

from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Books blog: Poem of the week: Reconstruction by Zoë Skoulding

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