Matthew Sweeney, John Hartley Williams

Write Poetry and Get it Published

Find your subject, master your style and jump-start your poetic writing

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Produktbeschreibung

YOUR COMPLETE GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING AND WRITING POETRY. Write Poetry - and Get it Published is a new edition of a long-standing and popular guide which offers you plenty of advice and ideas for inspiration as well as practical support for all aspects of the poetry writing and publication process.

Produktdetails

• TY Creative Writing
• Verlag: John Murray Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 131mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 224g
• ISBN-13: 9781444103243
• ISBN-10: 1444103245
• Artikelnr.: 28168598

Autorenporträt

John Hartley Williams is a poet and a teacher at the University of Berlin who has published nine collections of poetry. Two of his books have been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Matthew Sweeney writes poetry for children and adults and is a creative writing teacher.

Inhaltsangabe

: acknowledgements
01: what does it take to be a poet?
02: bump-starting the poem
03: a challenge to the reader: groundwork exercises
04: getting started: working arrangements
05: i gotta use words when i talk to you
06: visualising
07: drafting and revision
08: using models
09: the co-operative approach
10: subject matter
11: context, mood and tone
12: writing in different modes
13: style
14: getting the rhymes to choose you
15: it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing
16: translation
17: writing for children
18: getting published
19: reading aloud
20: ars poetica
: last words
: taking it further