How to Write Poetry: And Get it Published (Continuum Collection) [Paperback]

Fred Sedgwick (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2005 | ISBN-10: 0826479138 | ISBN-13: 978-0826479136

Plenty of people want to write poetry - yet while it is not necessarily 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 the crafted and expressive poetry at the end.

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Fred Sedgwick is a poet, former headteacher and author of many books in the areas of literature, expressive arts, education and creativity.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Continuum (August 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0826479138
• ISBN-13: 978-0826479136
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,892,098 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars For beginners only, May 20, 2010

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This review is from: How to Write Poetry: And Get it Published (Continuum Collection) (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.