Writing Poems (Bloodaxe Poetry Handbooks): 2

Peter Sansom

ISBN 10: 1852242043 / ISBN 13: 9781852242046

Published by Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1993

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # wbs4385465318

Synopsis:

Drawing on his extensive experience of poetry workshops and courses, Peter Sansom shows would-be poets how to write better, how to write authentically, and how to say genuinely what is to be said. He illustrates his book with many useful examples, covering the areas of writing techniques and procedures and drafting. Writing Poems includes sections on meter, rhyme, half-rhyme, and free verse, fixed forms and how to use them, workshops and writing groups, writing games and exercises, a detailed and annotated reading list, and a glossary of technical terms.

About the Author:

Peter Sansom was born in 1958 in Nottinghamshire. For ten years he taught the MA Poetry at Huddersfield University, and more recently he was Fellow in Creative Writing at Leeds University, and Company Poet with Prudential. He is also a director with Ann Sansom of the Poetry Business in Sheffield, where they edit The North magazine and Smith/Doorstop Books.

His influential book, Writing Poems, was published by Bloodaxe in 1994. Carcanet publish his collections: Everything You’ve Heard is True, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation (1990), January (1994), for which he received an Arts Council Writer’s Bursary and an award from the Society of Authors, Point of Sale (2000), The Last Place on Earth (2006), Selected Poems (2010) and Careful What You Wish For (2015). He is married to the poet Ann Sansom and has four children. He has had a number of jobs: as writer-in-residence with Marks and Spencer, for instance, and as Guest Poet at The Times Educational Supplement, in addition to writing radio plays.

His poem commissions include work for The Guardian, The Observer, Radio Three, The Big Breakfast, a billboard in the centre of Lancaster, and The Swedish Club which is a marine insurers in Gothenburg.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Writing Poems (Bloodaxe Poetry Handbooks): 2
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good