Blinking Cursor's Concise Guide to Poetry

by Sam Rose

Brought to you by the creator of Blinking Cursor Literary Magazine, this is a quick reference guide to writing poetry. It looks at examples from famous poets, what tools they use and how we can use them to improve our own work.

36 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Sam Alexandra Rose is a poet, writer and editor born in Northamptonshire, England in 1987. She is a PhD student researching the connection between creative writing and cancer survivorship. She released her first poetry chapbook, Empowerthy, in 2015, which deals with themes of empowerment, empathy and cancer survivorship. Her writing often touches on the latter, with many of her poems being deeply personal and open accounts of her experience as a three-time cancer survivor living with ultra-rare condition Constitutional Mismatch Repair Deficiency (CMMRD). Sam's poems have been published in over 70 literary magazines and anthologies.