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Writing Poems

Drawing on his extensive experience of poetry workshops and courses Peter Sansom shows you not how to write but how to write better how to write authentically how to say genuinely what you genuinely mean to say. This practical guide is illustrated with many examples. Peter Sansom covers such areas as submitting to magazines; the small presses; analysing poems; writing techniques and procedures; and drafting. He includes brief resumes and discussions of literary history and literary fashions the spirit of the age and the creative process itself. Above all his book helps you learn discrimination in your reading and writing - so that you can decide for yourself how you want your work to develop whether that magazine was right in returning it or if they simply dont know their poetic arse from
their elbow. Writing Poems includes sections on: Metre rhyme half-rhyme and free verse. Fixed forms and how to use them. Workshops and writing groups. Writing games and exercises. A detailed annotated reading list. Where to go from here. Glossary of technical terms. Writing Poems has become an essential handbook for many poets and teachers: invaluable to writers just starting out helpful to poets who need a nuts-and-bolts handbook a godsend to anyone running poetry courses and workshops and an inspiration to all readers and writers who want a book which re-examines the writing of poems.
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Drawing on his extensive experience of poetry workshops & courses Peter Sansom shows you not how to write but how to write better how to write authentically how to say genuinely what you genuinely mean to say. This practical guide is illustrated with many examples. Peter Sansom covers such areas as submitting to magazines; the small presses; analysing poems; writing techniques & procedures; & drafting. He

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brief resumes & discussions of literary history & literary fashions the spirit of the age & the creative process itself. Above all his book helps you learn discrimination in your reading & writing
- so that you can decide for yourself how you want your work to develop whether that magazine was right in returning it or if they simply dont know their poetic arse from their elbow. Writing Poems

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sections on: Metre rhyme half-rhyme & free verse. Fixed forms & how to use them. Workshops & writing groups. Writing games & exercises. A detailed annotated reading list. Where to go from here. Glossary of technical terms. Writing Poems has become an essential handbook for many poets & teachers: invaluable to writers just starting out helpful to poets who need a nuts-&-bolts handbook a godsend to anyone running poetry courses & workshops & an inspiration to all readers & writers who want a book which re-examines the writing of poems.

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