Creative writing: How to write poetry

Improve your creative writing and learn how to write sonnets, narrative poetry, blank verse, free verse and much more.

Created by: Serena Greenslade F.V.C.M. (Hons), A.N.E.A.
Elocution coach AKA Voice coach F.V.C.M.(Hons) for 28 years

What Will I Learn?

• You will be able to write a poem and be proud of it
• You will know how to use words to express yourself
• Learn how to use meter and rhyme
• Plenty of exercises to help you start different forms of poetry such as sonnets, free verse, blank verse, limmericks, nonsense and narrative poetry
• Create poems full of meaning and expression

Requirements

• A desire to use your imagination to write poetry
• An understanding of English
• Pen or pencil and paper, if you're like me, lots of paper!

Target audience

• Anyone who would like to try writing a poem
• People who want to be able to put their feelings into a poem
• People who want to learn the basics of poetic form
• People who may be recovering from a traumatic situation or illness and want a way to express their feelings
• I think this is also great for parents who want to help their children write poetry, perhaps for a school project