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Keating Writing Dialogue for Scripts • Rib Davis Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction • Lisa Tuttle Writing for Magazines • Jill Dick Writing a Play • Steve Gooch Writing Poetry • John Whitworth Writing Popular Fiction • Rona Randall Writing Romantic Fiction • Daphne Clair and Robyn Donald Writing Sitcoms • John Byrne and Marcus Powell Writing for Soaps • Chris Curry Writing Successful Textbooks • Anthony Haynes Writing for Television • Gerald Kelsey Writing a Thriller • André Jute  \nOther books for writers  \nNovel Writing • Evan Marshall The Reader’s Encyclopedia • William Rose Benét Research for Writers • Ann Hoffmann The Weekend Novelist • Robert J. Ray and Bret Norris Word Power: A Guide to Creative Writing • Julian Birkett Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook  \nWRITING HANDBOOKS  \nWriting POETRY  \nSECOND EDITION  \nJOHN WHITWORTH  \nA & C Black • London  \nSecond edition 2006  \nFirst published 2001  \nA & C Black Publishers Limited  \n38 Soho Square, London W1D 3HB [www.acblack.com](www.acblack.com)  \n© 2006, 2001 John Whitworth ISBN 0–7136–7418–0  \neISBN-13: 978-1-4081-0307-4  \nA CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means – graphic, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or information storage and retrieval systems – without the prior permission in writing of A & C Black Publishers Limited.  \nA & C Black uses paper produced with elemental chlorine-free pulp, harvested from managed sustainable forests.  \nTypeset in 10.5/13 pt Sabon Printed and bound in Great Britain by Creative Print and Design (Wales), Ebbw Vale  \nContents  \n1 Poetry and Myself 1  \n2 What is Poetry? 7  \n3 Modernism, Postmodernism and All That 17  \n4 Words, Words, Words 27  \n5 Poems About ... 38  \n6 Metaphors, Similes and Images 48  \n7 Patterning 61  \n8 Counting Your Feet – Poetic Metre 71  \n9 Blank Verse and Free Verse 85  \n10 Syllabic Verse 100  \n11 Rhyme, Near-rhyme and Alliteration 106  \n12 Some Verse Forms 117  \n13 Sonnets 128  \n14 Some Other Verse Forms 138  \n15 Getting it Writ then Getting it Right 151  \n16 Writing for Children 160  \n17 Other Ways of Speaking: Dialect and Nonsense 167  \n18 The Art of Coarse Poetry Reading 177  \n19 Rich and Famous 181  \n20 Getting Your Poetry into Print 189  \n21 Books to Read 199  \n22 Poetry and the Internet 204  \nAppendix 207  \nGeneral Index 211  \nIndex to Exercises 217  \nAcknowledgements 217  \n1  \nPoetry and Myself  \nWho are you? 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