The Craft: A Guide to Making Poetry Happen in the 21st CenturyThe Craft is an indispensable guide to both the ? how? and ? why? of poetic craft in the 21st century, and essential writing desk companion for poets at all stages. The book covers practical techniques ? the nuts of bolts of putting poems together, mastering poetic forms such as sonnets, sestinas, prose poems and golden shovels, how to choose titles for your poems and the art of long sequences. It also explores the idea of ? craft? itself knowing how

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atmospheric photographs

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Travel+Leisure) at different periods of her life

and however great the obstacles

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it shapes the ways we see and say

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Whether he considers Hiroshima or dead albatrosses

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and moments of realised and imaginary passion are concentrated into cameos and carbuncles – ‘glimmering tokens of memory’