- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Continuum (Dec 5 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0826458351
- ISBN-13: 978-0826458353
- Product Dimensions: 28.2 x 16.8 x 1.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 195 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,338,450 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Plenty of people want to write poetry - yet while it is not difficult to write poetry badly, it is harder to write it well. In this guide Fred Sedgwick explains, with numerous examples from successful poets, how the creative process works, from the initial impulse to write all the way through to crafted and expressive poetry at the end.
About the Author
Fred Sedgwick is mainstream poet who has published two collections as well as many poems in serials such as the Times Literary Supplement (TLS). Times Educational Supplement (TES) and Quarto. His poetry has appeared in over 40 collections. He has written books about writing, literature and the expressive arts for Continuum, Routledge and Falmer, David Fulton, and Bloomsbury.
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For beginners only, May 20 2010
By N. Wong - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: How to Write Poetry: And Get it Published (Paperback)
Following the MFA trend that hits England, the States and Asia, there have been lots of books on creative writing, whether it's on fiction, non-fiction or poetry. However, among all, only a few stand out and this is not total stranger to massive number of MFA graduates. Everybody writes but there's just not enough readers.Fred Sedgwick's How to Write Poetry is a disappointment. The author organizes the book with the ideas of how to write poems and some practical prompts to encourage readers to try out his theories. This may work for children or beginning writers, but it is far from what people who want to embark onto the next stage in the creative world would want. The book is full of basic ideas but fail to give advice and inspire readers on how to treat their writing as a continuous process. There's no chapter on how to revise a draft and what to revise. Examples include in this book mainly come from the writer and children! Come on, it's published by Continuum, and readers expect something more hardcore than how to teach young children to write creatively.
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