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.

John Hartley Williams & Matthew Sweeney

• : 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