Product Description

Your comprehensive guide, balancing creative development with practical information.

Covers all the very latest on prizes, festivals and performance poetry events and how to get published.

Contains lots of practical exercises to help you find your voice and enable you to develop a real flair.

The bestselling and most popular guide to writing poetry on the market.

'teach yourself writing poetry' is a user-friendly and comprehensive guide that will prove indispensible if you're seeking creative guidance, inspiration and practical advice. Covering everything from mood, style and tone to learning about poetry on the net, this fully updated edition will help you find your voice. Containing straightforward advice on how to get published, the very latest on prizes, festivals and performance poetry as well as plenty of useful examples and exercises to try out yourself, it is a thoroughly readable and engaging book.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #80051 in Books
• Published on: 2008-11-28
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Review
"comprehensive and practical...the next best thing to having [the authors] on hand to encourage and coach you" -- Obsessed with Pipework 20040401

Review
"comprehensive and practical...the next best thing to having [the authors] on hand to encourage and coach you" (Obsessed with Pipework )

About the Author
John Hartley Williams is a poet and a teacher at the University of Berlin. Matthew Sweeney writes poetry for children and adults and is a creative writing teacher. Both have published many volumes of poetry and have won several awards.

Customer Reviews

One of the best books ever on poetry writing
This is a brilliant book with so many practical exercises it can't fail to give even experienced poets ideas about what to write about. It is very thorough in covering all types of poetry and not at all pompous. The two voices of the authors give an immediacy, as if they're leading a workshop. Very good for ideas for writers' groups

Brilliant poetry book all round
I bought this as I am quite interested in anytyhing to do with poetry, reading it, writing it, understanding it etc and I was not disappointed! It takes you through many different forms of poetry and gives you small exercises that you could do anywhere. I would definbitely recommend this book for most people, especiallythos that want to improve their writing or to even get a starting point, it was a wonderful investment at a very good price.