The authors of the collection are trying to give a positive response to the ongoing methodological discussions in poetry, turning to the main, most significant categories of the section of literary criticism about poetry. A number of articles are addressed to the problems, the history of Russian verse, in particular to those traditions that turn out to be fruitful for the development of versification, as a dynamic phenomenon of modern artistic and speech culture. In many ways, the question of free verse is being raised in a new way.