The Ode Less Travelled : Unlocking the Poet Within (Paperback)

from the.ken.petersen

I have always loved literature, and books so, one of my favourite subjects, in those long off days of my schooling, was English. My heart would jump for joy at each new author, or technique that I encountered: well, all but one - POETRY. I could read and enjoy the works of poets but, when asked t...

from jen.e.moore

Have you ever tried to write poetry? It's not as easy as it looks - even free blank verse, in most hands, sounds silly, while a good poet can shake you to your core. Nevertheless, I keep trying to write poetry, hoping that someday I'll accidentally manage something that's actually good. I picked ...

from dmtmusic

A must for any fan of Stephen Fry. I wish I'd had this book while learning poetry in school - it's clear, in-depth enough to be taken seriously yet not so much as to be pedestrian, and entertaining. Not like the typical boring texts I was forced to slog through. Writing this was obviously a labor...

from Razinha

I try to get outside my comfort zone sometimes and I got this a couple of years ago to do just that but didn't get too far. I was told ...by several people...that I had to read it out loud. So...it languished for a while. Then I found out that Stephen Fry read it himself for an audiobook. I'll li...

from debnance

Fry cleverly drags out the reading of this book by forcing the reader to take a vow to read all the poems aloud and to do all the exercises in the book. I did well until I came to the next-to-last chapter of the book, a chapter on forms. I admit it: I didn't do any of the exercises on writing pan...