Non Fiction
Category: Criticism, Non Fiction
Number of pages: 176
ISBN: 9781854111319
Publication date: January 1, 1996
Price: £6.95
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How Poets Work is a fascinating review of the creative process which will interest all those who study, write or want to write poetry. Nine poets from the UK and America describe how their poetry comes into being. From ideas, single words, lines which are suddenly given, poems develop in both the personal situation of the writer anda wider social context. Each poet supplements their essay with the drafts of one of their significant or popular poems, providing unmatchable creative commentary. Editor Tony Curtis adds a general essay on ’The Life of the Poem’, exploring the many things a poem can be and the many forms it can take.
Tony Curtis
Poet, critic, essayist, expert on Welsh Art, Tony Curtis was born in Carmarthen in West Wales in 1946. He studied at Swansea University and Goddard College, Vermont. He is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including his latest: From the Fortunate Isles: New and Selected Poems. He has also written volumes of critical work on poets and artists and edited popular anthologies of poetry. He is Emeritus Professor of Poetry at the University of South Wales, where he established and was Director of the MPhil in Writing for many years. He has been elected to the Royal Society of Literature and has toured widely reading his poetry to international audiences.
