Description
How to be a Poet is the brainchild of poet Jo Bell and editor Jane Commane. As a natural follow-on to the 52 Project of 2014, this book aims to help poets taking the next step in developing, working and participating in the wider creative community as a writer.
How to be a Poet combines practical advice and topical mini-essays that examine both the technical and creative dimensions of being a poet. It’s a no-nonsense manual where we’ve replaced the spanners with lots of ink, elbow grease and edits. At each step, we ask plenty of questions: what makes a poem tick over perfectly, how do we get it started when it stalls, and which warning lights should you never ignore?
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 
A Sonnet to Science 
Concerning the Angels 
Search Party 
The Sea Migrations 
Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt 
Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one 
Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse 
The Museum of Disappearing Sounds 
The Skies Above My Eyes 
My First Mr. Men Nursery Rhymes