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Routes into Poetry - Download Version

For beginners (but not absolute beginners!) and intermediate writers who want to explore some definitions of poetry; and to start some structured learning about rhyme, metre, verse forms, lineation and stanzas. Exercises, reading and writing tasks will help you begin to construct a voice, to create shapes on the page and develop your first drafts with confidence.

This is the download version of the face-to-face course Tamar runs regularly in London. You don't need to have taken the classroom course to find the download version useful - but if you have taken the classroom course, this version will function as a useful refresher or course handbook.

Written by Tamar Yoseloff.

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Tamar Yoseloff

Tamar Yoseloff was born in the U.S. in 1965. Her first collection, Sweetheart (Slow Dancer Press, 1998) was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation and the winner of the Aldeburgh Festival Prize. She received a New Writers' Award from London Arts for her second collection in progress, which was later published as Barnard's Star (Enitharmon Press, 2004). In 2005 she was Writer in Residence at Magdalene College, Cambridge, as part of their Year in Literature Festival. Her third collection, Fetch, was published by Salt in 2007, as was Marks, an artist book collaboration with Linda Karshan published by Pratt Contemporary Editions. She is also the editor of A Room to Live In: A Kettle's Yard Anthology (Salt 2007) and the poetry editor of Art World Magazine. She is currently working on her first novel.