Is This a Poem?
What Makes a Poem, and How You Can Write One
1st Edition
Published on 6. October 2016
96 pages
978-1-4729-2002-7 (ISBN)
Description
Do you like poems? Are you sure you know what one is?!
Join popular poet Roger Stevens for a trip through the different types of poetry: from advertising jingles to football chants, and from free verse to rap. Then, why not have a go at writing a poem of your own?
Join popular poet Roger Stevens for a trip through the different types of poetry: from advertising jingles to football chants, and from free verse to rap. Then, why not have a go at writing a poem of your own?
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Digital)
Target group
Children/juvenile
ISBN-13
978-1-4729-2002-7 (9781472920027)
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10/2016
Bloomsbury Education
€28.65
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Person
Roger Stevens is a poet, author, musician and artist. He has had more than twenty five books published and his poems have appeared in more than two hundred anthologies. Roger performs his poetry in schools, libraries and festivals and runs creative writing workshops for young and old. Roger founded the award-winning Poetry Zone website.
Content
- Cover
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part 1: When Is A Poem Not A Poem?
- Playing With Letters and Words
- Concrete Poems
- Acrostics and Their Friends
- Ox-writing
- Words Within Words
- Anagram Poems
- Not Just Words
- Sorting the Syllables, Letters and Lines
- One-word Poems
- Haiku
- Senryu
- Tanka
- Cinquains
- Univocalic
- Pick a Letter
- Kennings
- Alphabet Poems
- Prose Poetry
- Can These Really Be Poems?
- Chants
- Doggerel and Cliché
- Nursery Rhymes
- Riddles
- Having a Laugh
- Adverts
- Poems About Poems
- Cut-ups and Collage
- New Poems From Old
- Nonsense Verse
- And Finally.
- Structured Non-rhyming Verse
- Free Verse
- Part 2: How To Write Brilliant Poetry
- Write It Down
- Be Imaginative
- Start Here
- Cinquains
- Mesostic Poems
- Advert Poems
- Making a Cut-up Poem
- Top Eleven Tips for Writing Verse
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright Page
