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The Man Who Tried To Hug Clouds by Jim Bennett

POETRY 2000 - POETRY COLLECTION OF THE YEAR 2004

I think of all the poets I know, Jim Bennett has influenced me more than any other poet I have read, heard or come into contact with, his poetry is a monument to life and our the existence as individuals. He is a poet of great individuality and quality who should be recognised for his tremendous contribution. I was pleased to hear that Jim had won the two DADAFest awards (one as best individual artist and the other as best established artist) it is the start of the recognition which he should now receive for a lifetime dedicated to poetry. Ted Slade - Poet (Last Arm Pointing - Flarestack) and Founder and Managing Editor of Poetry Kit.

ISBN: 1-904781-31-4 For more information or to buy - The Man Who Tried to Hug Clouds

Dropping Ecstasy With The Angelsby Dee Rimbaud

Poetry Kit Favourite poetry book 2005 =1st place

Signed copies of 'Dropping Ecstasy With The Angels' are available directly from the author for £7.99 & £2.00 (p&p).  Cheques for £9.99 payable to Dee Rimbaud, 7 Lothian Gardens (0/1), Glasgow, G20 6BN.  For arrangements about shipping abroad please contact the author.

For more information or to buy - Dropping Ecstasy with the Angels

Burn My Heart in Wet Sand by George Wallace

Poetry Kit Favourite poetry book 2005 =1st place

"My Patron Saint of contemporary mystic realism" -- Gareth Higgins, Belfast Ireland. "Whitman's...same marrowy vigour, uninhibited reach, and headlong urgency" -- Mario Petrucci, London, England. "Freeflowing surrealism - instinctively well constructed" -- Dave Ward, Liverpool, England. "Damn Fine Poems" -- AD Winans, San Francisco Ca. "Language poems that make sense" -- Hal Sirowitz, New York. "Wallace is a necessary poet, today, as few, as maybe no other" -- Marzo Pieri, Parma, Italy.  

Order at http://www.troubador.co.uk/transference or through Amazon.com.

For more information or to buy - Burn My Heart in Wet Sand

The Last Arm Pointing by Ted Slade

A collection of Ted Slade's poetry published as a pamphlet by Flarestack Publishing, May 2001.
"'The Last Arm Pointing' sequence from his Flarestack collection of the same title (2001) tellingly pictures some of the ironies around the pain of disability and the courage required to fight it."

TED SLADE 1939-2004 - MEMORIAL PAGE

For more information or to buy Last Arm Pointing

NEW POEMS Vol 1-3 - Charles Bukowski

"Bukowski was one of America's best known writers and one of its best-known writers and one of its most influential and imitated poets. Although in his lifetime he published over 45 books of poetry, hundreds of poems were kept by him and his publisher for postumous publication. These are the poems that Bukowski considered to be among his best work."

For more information or to buy

New Poems: Bk. 1

New Poems: Bk. 2

New Poems: Bk.3

Selected Poems: 1947-1995 (Penguin Modern Classics)  
Allen Ginsberg

Chosen by Ginsberg himself, this selection, in his words, "summarizes what I deem most honest, most penetrant of my writing". Ranging from early works such as "Paterson" (1949) to more recent uncollected poems, this volume brings together nearly 50 years of his verse.

For more information or to buy Selected Poems: 1947-1995 (Penguin...

An nthology of poetry and fiction - nthposition press, 2004
Pb, 240pp, 210mm x 148mm, £9.99,
"powerful, distinctive voices full of wit, invention and mischief from all over the world, [..] This is the twenty-first century answer to the vanished local bookshop kept by an avid reader with style and taste and real insider knowledge."
MARINA WARNER, UK

"destined to become a classic"
THE POETRY KIT, UK

ISBN 0954626818

For more information or to buy In the Criminal's Cabinet: An Anthology...

Worlds: Seven Modern Poets - G. Summerfield (Editor)

A superb introduction to some of the finest poets of the late 20th Century

inc Heaney, Causley, Gunn, Hughes, Mitchell, Morgan, MacCaig.

 

For more information or to buy Worlds: Seven Modern Poets

Caught in the Net is a feature which highlights selected poetry or the work of a chosen poet.

Click on CITN to see their featured work and CITN BOOKSHOP for a selection of CITN recommended books.

For more information or to buy - Writing Poetry (Teach Yourself... - 20% off publishers price.

For more information or to buy - How to Be Well-versed in Poetry

Taking Your Poetry Further'

The Poetry Society's guide for the novice poet, available free by sending a SAE to The Poetry Society, 22 Betterton Street, London WC2H 9BU

The Way to Write - A complete guide to the basic skills of good writing'

by John Fairfax & John Moat,

with a forward by the ex Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes - Elm Tree Books, London

For more information or to buy - The Way to Write (The Way to Write)

The Art and Craft of Poetry - Michael J Bugela:
"Not only a worthwhile investment and an inspiration for any serious and aspiring poet, but also a most useful book for poetry readers, who do not themselves write poetry, but want some insight into what makes a good poem" - Ron Wooland, Reach magazine Writers' Digest Books

For more information or to buy - The Art and Craft of Poetry

The Art of Haiku 2000

Gerald England, Jean M. Kahler (Illustrator)

A Guide to Haiku, Senryu, Tanka, Haibun, Renga, Sedoka, Sijo and Related Genres  

For more information or to buy - The Art of Haiku: A Guide to Haiku,...

For more information or to buy - How Poetry Works

Kenneth C Steven Poets' Handbook - A Guide to Building Great Poems
Writers' Bookshop/ Paperback / January 2001

For more information or to buy - Poets' Handbook: A Guide to Building...

Writing Poems'- Peter Sansom
Bloodaxe Poetry Handbooks:2 Bloodaxe Books.

For more information or to buy - Writing Poems (Bloodaxe Poetry Handbooks)

Gladsongs and Gatherings: Poetry and Its Social Context in Liverpool Since the 1960s  
Stephen Wade (Editor)

A interesting book which showes the development of the poetry scene in Liverpool

For more information or to buy - Gladsongs and Gatherings: Poetry and Its...

How to Teach Poetry Writing at Key Stage 1 - Michaela Morgan

David Fulton Publishers 2001

For more information or to buy - How to Teach Poetry Writing at Key Stage...

How to Teach Poetry Writing at Key Stage 2 - Michaela Morgan

David Fulton Publishers 2001

For more information or to buy - How to Teach Poetry Writing at Key Stage...

Poetry in the Making - Ted Hughes

wrote this for children, but don't let that stop you from seeking out this excellent little book. Faber and Faber 1967

 

For more information or to buy - Poetry in the Making: An Anthology of...

The Portable Creative Writing Workshop' by Irish poet and fiction writer Pat Boran.

(Salmon Publishing, March 1999)

The 200 page handbook offers beginning writers of poetry and fiction dozens of games and exercises, lots of technical information and a great amount of advice and challenge to help them in their writing. More than two dozen Irish and interantional authors, including Maeve Binchy, Eavan Boland, Peter Finch, Seamus Heaney, Roddy Doyle and Marina Warner have also contributed specially written pieces of advice for beginners.

For more information or to buy - The Portable Creative Writing Workshop

Writing Poems' Peter Sansom

Bloodaxe Poetry Handbooks:2 Bloodaxe Books.

For more information or to buy - Writing Poems (Bloodaxe Poetry Handbooks)

Vanity Press & The Proper Poetry Publishers' Johnathon Clifford
published by the author Johnathon Clifford's Vanity Publishing page