The Poet's Notebook

A beautifully produced gift for poets and artists, The Poet's Notebook contains blank pages for personal notes and developing work. Each page has helpful tips, guidance and advice from one of Britain's leading poets. With 30 years experience teaching poetry, Brendan Cleary brings his insights to the margins of the notebook with this constructive guide to writing and editing poetry. The Poet's Notebook contains the fundamental tips for aspiring poets and the artist's space to practice. Each tip coaches the writer to help overcome the hurdles a poet might face when editing their own work. Cleary expresses the need for a poet to engage in the writing of a poem, and suggests methods to help this interaction blossom. The notebook addresses devices and techniques in poetry that are helpful to experiment with, and demonstrates the use of these methods with poetic examples. Throughout the notebook Cleary establishes ways to unleash creativity, providing the poet with tools to reach a poem's full potential. The Poet's Notebook is a hardbound artist's notebook that combines a beautiful workspace with practical tips and exercises to guide the creation of first drafts and their development.
These tips are useful to beginning poets as well as experienced poets, asking the writer to reevaluate the poem at each step of its creation.