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The Poetry Kit
Books to get you Moving
There must be thousands of books that pretend to teach you how
to write,
hundreds on how to write poetry. Here are a few of them; they
shoud be
enough to be going on with.
!The "ay to "rite # compete guide to the basic skis of good
writing!by
John Fairfax & John Moat, with a forward by the Poet
Laureate, Ted Hughes Elm
Tree Boos, London!How to be "e$ersed in Poetry!edited by E!"!
Parrott
Penguin Boos # lighthearted but in$aluable guide to English
%oeti
forms!Michae % Bugea& The Art and Craft of Poetry'(ot only a
worthwhile
in$estment and an ins%iration for any serious and as%iring %oet,
but also a most
useful boo for %oetry readers, who do not themsel$es write
%oetry, but want some
insight into what maes a good %oem' )on *ooland, )eah maga+ine
*riters
-igest Boos "rder here from
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Poetry
"orks!Phili% -a$ies )oberts Penguin BoosThe Poetry Bookfor
Primary
1hools, edited by #nthony *ilson with 1i;n Hughes! # olletion of
%oems,games, inter$iews, lessonideas and debate to enhane %oetry
teahing throughout
the %rimary years! The Poetry 1oiety .orgs!htm, Free%ost L"(33:
"rder here from #ma+on!o!u
.htt%/00www!ama+on!o!u0exe0obidos0#12(0:53>6:8:350:868!The
Portabe'reative "riting "orkshop!by 2rish %oet and fition writer
Pat Boran! ?1almon
Publishing .%ubs!htm, Marh :555@ The >33 %age handboo offers
beginning
writers of %oetry and fition do+ens of games and exerises, lots
of tehnial
information and a great amount of ad$ie and hallenge to hel%
them in their
writing! More than two do+en 2rish and interantional authors,
inluding Mae$eBinhy, Ea$an Boland, Peter Finh
.maga+ine0ontribs!htm, 1eamus Heaney,
)oddy -oyle and Marina *arner ha$e also ontributed s%eially
written %iees of
ad$ie for beginners! There is also an online Areati$e *riting
*orsho% based on
the boo! -etails are at .htt%/00home%age!tinet!ie0%atboran! "r
he out 1almon
Publishings %age at .htt%/00www!salmon%oetry!om!Practica Poetry
), Poetry
*+ercises!by #nn Aoffey! Aherrybite Publiations, Linden Aottage,
9< Burton)oad, Little (eston, Aheshire AH79 9#E! First in a
series of %ratial handboos
for budding %oets!!Taking our Poetry -urther!is The Poetry
1oiety
.orgs!htms guide for the no$ie %oet, a$ailable free by sending a
1#E to The
Poetry Society, 22 Betterton Street, London WC2H 9BU!Teach
oursef "riting
Poetry and etting Pubished! Matthew 1weeney and John Hartley
*illiams
Hodder & 1toughton CD :556 7!55 #n exellent, %ratial worboo
for
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beginners and ex%eriened %oets, by two of the best worsho%
%ratitioners in the
business! Ali here to BC= TH21 B""D #T # -21A"C(T
.boosho%!htm!"riting Poems!Peter 1ansom Bloodaxe Poetry
Handboos/>
Bloodaxe Boos!The "ay to "rite Poetry!Mihael Baldwin Elm
Tree
Boos!etting /nto Poetry!Paul Hyland Bloodaxe Poetry
Handboos/:
Bloodaxe Boos!How to Pubish our Poetry!Peter
Finh.maga+ine0ontribs!htm#llison & Busby!"hat to do with your
poems!
E$angeline Paterson "ther Poetry Editions!The "riter!s
'ompanionThe
essential guide to being %ublished! Barry Turner! MaMillan :557!
"rder here
from #ma+on!o!u .
Poetry Maga0ines in /ndia
Brown Aritiue .htt%/00www!brownritiue!om0>nd Floor, 54 Par
1treet,
Aalutta 633 3:6 2ndia Phone/ 5: ?388@ >43 :847 Editor/
Gayatri Maumdar
email/ gayatrimaumdarI$snl!om .mailto/gayatrimaumdarI$snl!om
'handrabhaga& # Maga0ine of /ndian "ritingTinonia Bagiha,
Autta 63 Editor/ (issim E+eielKavya Bharati1tudy Aentre for
2ndian
Literature in English and Translation ?1A2LET@, #merian Aollege,
Madurai 7>< 33>,
Tamilnadu, 2ndia! Editor/ )!P! (air! Poesis# Journal of Poetry
Airle, Mumbai, A0"Poetry Airle, Mumbai, P" Box ::3 4>, (ew
Marine Lines, Mumbai 933 3>3 Editor/
Prabhanan D! MishraPoetry Today40>3 Fern )oad, Aalutta 633
3:5 Editor/
Pradi%umar Ahaudhuri
