Stephen Fry believes that if you can speak & read English you can write poetry. But it is no fun if you don't know where to start or have been led to believe that Anything Goes. Stephen who has long written poems & indeed has written long poems for his own private pleasure invites you to discover the incomparable delights of metre rhyme & verse forms. Whether you want to write a Petrarchan sonnet for your lover's birthday an epithalamion for your sister's wedding or a villanelle excoriating the government's housing policy The Ode Less Travelled will give you the tools & the confidence to do so. Brimful of enjoyable exercises witty insights & simple step-by-step advice The Ode Less Travelled" guides the reader towards mastery & confidence in the Mother of the Arts."