Poetry: Tools & Techniques: A Practical Guide to Writing Engaging Poetry

Want to improve your craft? Then this is a good place to start. Poems do not simply happen, they are made Poetry: Tools & Techniques shows how to make them. In plain, straight-forward language, this practical guide introduces the devices and techniques used by successful poets. Poetry: Tools & Techniques is a starting point for writers to find their own direction rather than a definitive textbook on how to write in the proper and approved manner. Poetry: Tools & Techniques investigates the structure of language and how it conveys meaning and from that shows how to create and use a poetic, a philosophy of language, to shape and inform your writing. The book encourages poets to explore the limits of language and discover how to make language speak beyond itself to make language say what it was not designed to say, to express the inexpressible. Poetry: Tools & Techniques provides an introduction to the basic elements of poetry metaphor, imagery, punctuation, syntax, rhythm, etc. the actual techniques and devices that go into making a poem, right down to the nuts and bolts structural parts of language the conjunctions, prepositions, articles, etc. and shows how they affect poetic language. Whether you are a beginning poet or an experienced writer, Poetry: Tools & Techniques will help you improve your craft.