this is the thirteenth anthology book by the alliance stylists in the series portraying all known poetry styles of the day ... both past and present with style examples shown to elight readers of all age groups ...

Thirteen ways of Looking for a Poem encourages students to enrich their writing by actively studying and practicing poetic form. Using a unique textbook/anthology format, which includes poems by both emerging and well-known poets, Wendy Bishop demonstrates how various poetic forms offer insight into the often hidden inner mechanics of poem-building, strengthening writing skills and poetry interpretation at the same time.

This is the eighth book in the Alliance Stylists series of portraying all known poetry styles ... in this book you will once again enjoy many more styles fully portrayed in much diversity and in poetic detail ... So this is a book to delight all readers and help teach any budding poet ...

This is the 6th book is a most wonderful follow on to all the previous books in this the Alliance Stylists series, a compilation of poems that have all been so wonderfully created in order to explain and portray all the many varying poetic styles and forms of the day.

Combining lush Gothic lyricism with postmodern experimentation, Oliver Sheppard's second collection of verse, Thirteen Nocturnes, presents a nightmare vision of a world in the grip of apocalypse and shadow-a world where "a nighttime of years never-ending" becomes "a darkness severe and unbending," and where life is relentlessly "gathered up against the towering shadow of decay." Taking cues from the dark Romanticism of Poe, the decadent Symbolism of Baudelaire, and the apocalyptic tradition of William Blake-as well as the existential doominess of 20th century cosmic horror-Oliver Sheppard's Thirteen Nocturnes presents a verse vision of collapse, announcing a cold poetics of disintegration in the new dark age of the Anthropocene. "Reading Sheppard's poetry is a little like listening to a conversation between Nietzsche and William Blake during a showing of Peckinpah's Cross of Iron. Using a wide range of forms and cultural references, Sheppard illustrates the human condition in ways that take as much account of its absence as its presence... Given the chance, Sheppard will lead you down dark and unfamiliar paths, to moments of weird beauty." -from the foreword by John Foster

This is the seventeenth book in this most wonderful teaching collection created by the "Alliance Stylists" Poets who once inspired participate in weekly style challenges by their Style Tutor, Christina R Jussaume.