Subscriber Judy
Karbritz, Edgware, Middlesex, hopes to demystify writing
poetry with her latest book, Pots, Pans & Poetry.
Judy set up her own company, Poetry Press Limited, to publish
the book, which she says ‘uses everyday analogies
associated with cooking to assist the readers’ appreciation
of poetry and to encourage them to write’.
‘I am aware of no other book on the market in this
vein as other books that profess to “teach”
poetry are most often more akin to those gardening books
that, having listed the Latin tags of plants, then forget
to tell you about how often you should water them,’
she says.
‘In
short, Pots, Pans & Poetry is intended to sweep
away the ballyhoo and mystery of poetry and provide the
“why, what and the how” in a way that almost
everyone will understand.
‘It
answers the perceived need of the majority of people who do
not have the advantage of a university education in English,
or any special tuition of poetry, to approach this lovely
subject on equal terms with an academic.
‘Within the cooking analogy, I treat metre and rhythm
in an elemental way, calculated to be easily absorbed and
committed to memory without stress.
‘The relative importance of rhyme is, as everything
else in the book, illustrated by parallel culinary metaphors
to ease understanding.’
Pots, Pans & Poetry,
Volume I, illustrated by fellow WN subscriber Elaine
Segal, is £12.99.
Judy Karbritz, website:www.judyk.co.uk
