{"title":"Books by John Hartley Williams","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781444103243","title":"Write Poetry And Get It Published","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive guide to writing poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWrite Poetry - and Get It Published\u003c\/i\u003e is a user-friendly and comprehensive guide written by two well-published poets that will prove indispensible if you're seeking creative guidance, inspiration and practical advice. Covering everything from mood, style and tone to poetry on the internet, this fully updated edition will help you find your voice. Containing straightforward advice and the very latest on prizes, festivals and performance poetry, this book will enable an aspiring or seasoned poet alike to gain the confidence and necessary knowledge to write and publish compelling poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWrite Poetry and Get it Published includes:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: What does it take to be a poet?\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: Bump-starting the poem\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: A challenge to the reader: groundwork exercises\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: Getting started: working arrangements\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: I gotta use words when I talk to you\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: Letters, alphabets and lists\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: Visualizing\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: Drafting and revision\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9: Using models\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10: The co-operative approach\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11: Subject matter\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12: Context, mood and tone\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13: Writing in different modes\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14: Style\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15: Getting the rhymes to chose you\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16: It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing\u003cbr\u003eChapter 17: Translation\u003cbr\u003eChapter 18: Writing for children\u003cbr\u003eChapter 19: Getting published\u003cbr\u003eChapter 20: ipoems and cyber verse\u003cbr\u003eChapter 21: Reading aloud\u003cbr\u003eChapter 22: Poetry prizes and festivals\u003cbr\u003eChapter 23: \u003ci\u003ears poetica\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eABOUT THE SERIES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe\u003ci\u003e Teach Yourself\u003c\/i\u003e Creative Writing series helps aspiring authors tell their story. 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Here you will be entertained and diverted - by bizarre stories of mapless roads and unreal cities, the Ostrich Palisades and the erotic stones of Bonehenge; by a spooked version of Rimbaud's 'La Bateau Ivre'; by encounters with Malcolm Lowry, the floating dead, the 'old men behind the waterfall' and the knitted poet; by poems about donkey jackets and dancing with donkeys, and a one-sided conversation with a decidedly un-Romantic polar bear two doors down from Dove Cottage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong celebrated for his ranging, restless imagination, his baroque, elliptical narratives, his manic humour and maverick stance, Williams returns with another invitation to join him for a jug or two of wine in his out-of-kilter universe: a world that is both strange, and strangely familiar. 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