1. Introduction -- 2. Voice : human embodied cognition and embodied knowing -- 3. Breaking the pentameter -- 4. What is distinctive about free verse? -- 5. The basis of prosody in music -- 6. The basis of prosody in dance -- 7. A new prosody 1 : elements of the system -- 8. A new prosody 2 : how the system works -- 9. A new prosody 3 : the system in action -- 10. Free verse across the world -- 11. Free verse in translation -- 12. Writing free verse -- 13. Reading free verse -- 14. What lies beyond free verse? -- 15. Postscript : June fires.