The bestselling guide to finding your voice, writing poetry, and getting published  Teach Yourself Writing Poetry is a user-friendly and comprehensive guide that will prove indispensable if you're seeking creative guidance, inspiration, and practical advice. Covering everything from mood, style, and tone to learning about poetry on the 'Net, this fully updated edition will help you find your voice. Containing straightforward advice on how to get published, the very latest on prizes, festivals, and performance poetry as well as plenty of useful examples and exercises to try out yourself, it is a thoroughly readable and engaging book.

Teach Yourself Writing Poetry

Reference

Hartley, John

Sweeney, Matthew

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

McGraw=Hill

The Bridal Suite

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Jonathan Cape Ltd.

<p>About the Author\nMatthew Sweeney is the author of several collections of poems and the editor of Beyond Bedlam, Emergency Kit, and the New Faber Book of Children’s Verse.\nRepresenting the best of 10 books and 20 years' work, this collection is a magical tour into Sweeney's strange, unsettling world. Readers familiar with his poetry will be used to being led astray by his cordial, confiding wit, ambushed by his sinister twists, and taken in by his intimate, untrustworthy narrators. Those who are arriving for the first time may feel a measure of alarm and disquiet at the way the poems shift from a fireside chat to a tale of terror, from the commonplace to the hallucinatory, from the surprisingly real to the really surprising. These are the most secret, spiky narratives from the arch storyteller, the mixer of hilarity and menace, the master of fractured realism. The world would be a poorer place without these oblique but oddly lucid poems from Matthew Sweeney's haunted imagination.\nFrom the Inside Flap\nthe best of ten books and twenty years work, these are the secret, spiky narratives from the arch story-teller, the mixer of hilarity and menace, the past-master of fractured realism  a magical mystery tour into the strange, unsettling world that is Matthew Sweeneys haunted imagination.</p>

Selected Poems (Cape Poetry)

Poetry

RANDOM HOUSE UK

In Matthew Sweeney's eighth full-length collection the disarming fabulist and mythmaker steps out into fresh territory. These are poems from a mapless journey through the backwaters of Europe and the New World, imbued as always with the strange, unerring logic of dream, but carrying now a new, fugitive, lyrical note. The sanctuary of the title is fragile and hard-won, and the complexities of the emotional life are written into the architecture of the physical, making for a poetry that is both vulnerable and disturbing. Celebrated for his ability to blend the simple terror of folklore with the more sophisticated anxieties of Kafka and the contemporary, Sweeney moves through this book like a revenant—past monkeys dressed as doormen, through ice-hotels and showers of human hair, towards a scaffold or a lover. Obliquely sinister and wryly engaging, full of fright and grim hilarity, these are rootless poems, each unsettled, unsettling, and very far from home.

Sanctuary (Cape Poetry)

JONATHAN CAPE.

A beautiful gift book featuring a sumptuous and uplifting range of Irish poetry. Matthew Sweeney has chosen classics such as `Cockles and Mussels`, poems from such celebrated poets as Seamus Heaney and W.B. Yeats, and lesser-known gems that he has discovered on his journey through Ireland`s rich poetic heritage.

Irish Poems

Teen & Young Adult

Pan Childrens

Teach Yourself

The Snow Vulture

Faber and Faber

Fatso in the Red Suit

Faber & Faber, Limited

Faber and Faber Limited

"Up on the Roof" contains a selection from two published collections, "The Flying Spring Onion" and "Fatso in the Red Suit", along with 16 new poems in which Matthew Sweeney shows his unerring eye for the bizarre and funny and creates a world of high jinks where anything might happen.

Up on the Roof

Faber Childrens

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