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, this book gives you the tools and the confidence to do so with enjoyable exercises, insights and simple step-by-step advice.

This work gives readers everything necessary to begin writing or teaching the Japanese poetry, haiku, with examples by great Japanese masters.

Offers tools and insights, the instructions (and warnings against instructions) that poets - aspiring or practicing - can use to hone their craft, perhaps into art. Using examples from his own literary oeuvre and from other contemporary poets, the author schools us in the critical relationship between poet and reader.

This anthology illuminates the history, practice, and wonder of our most elusive art, poetry. Intended for all those who love poetry, including teachers, readers, writers, and students. The anthology draws the reader in to the excitement and entertainment of various poetic forms.

Features an easy-to-use dictionary format plus a revolutionary Concept Index that arranges words by idea, thus enhancing the user's process of association and leading to scores of additional selections.

From the bestselling author of 'Reviving Ophelia' and 'The Shelter of Each Other', comes a beautiful homage to the transformative power of words.

As the least literal form of creative writing, poetry is for many readers also the most cryptic. This book offers a step-by-step introduction to skills for reading poetry, working from the individual word, the line, and the image to verse forms, voice and gender, and metrical patterns.

Listing alternative words in order of usefulness, this book gives thousands of examples of words in use to help you choose the right synonym. It serves as a useful resource to help broaden your vocabulary and provide quick answers to word puzzles and crossword clues. It is intended for use at home, school, and the office.

Writing Poetry 2/e provides an introduction to the creative processes. Writing exercises provide structured learning experiences so students build both skill and confidence.

A useful aid for all committed and aspiring poets. A good rhyming dictionary is an essential tool for all writers of verse. This volume is compactly arranged to allow writers to find the rhymes they need quickly and easily.

Delivered while Heaney was Professor of Poetry at Oxford, these lectures cover subjects as diverse as Wilde's Ballad of Reading Gaol and Marlowe's Hero and Leander , as well as work by Yeats, Larkin and Dylan Thomas.

Suitable for those who want to write or teach poetry. Designed to encourage budding poets to explore language, this guide covers important poetry topics such as subject matter, free and measured verse, imagery, metaphor, and more. It features indepth instructions; definitions of poetry terms and examples; exercises; and more.

From 1903 to 1908, German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of responses to a young would-be poet, on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. An accompanying chronicle of Rilke's life comments on his own experiences at the time.