This book explores the art of poetry writing from a practice-based perspective, showing how form, trope and theory inform the practical craft of writing poems. It is divided into three key sections:

• Form and structure, covering sonnets, ballads, blank verse and more
  
• Trope and device, introducing topics such as irony, imagery and voice
  
• Poetics and practice, which discusses the writing of poets such as Robert Frost, Amy Lowell and Frank O'Hara
  

Each chapter unpacks a particular concept or form, using examples to display it in...