This collection explores the teaching of poetry at university. Structured around three sub-sections, Poetic Close Reading, Poetic Periodicity and Poetic Toolkits, the contributors draw on a range of critical perspectives to engage with topics such as ecology, queerness, race and digitality, and use their expertise to establish links with sociology, creative writing and other disciplines in the academy. Chapters are aimed at a diverse body of learners, from workshop participants to taught postgraduates, and can serve as useful primers for lectures, modules, and educational training sessions in higher education. Situated at the cutting edge of the field, the book will invigorate pedagogical approaches to poetry and poetics for a new generation of teachers, students, and readers.

Richard Stacey is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow, UK. He has published on Shakespeare and early modern drama in journals including Shakespeare Survey and Studies in Philology, and has co-edited the collection Shakespeare and the Shape of Words with Adrian Streete. He has written on a range of pedagogical topics, including co-created curricula, collaborative teaching and Generative AI, and has provided a new introduction to Shakespeare’s Henry VI Part 3 for the Oxford University Press series, Oxford World Classics.