If you can speak and read English, you can write poetry.The trick is knowing where to start. Stephen Fry, who has long written poems, and indeed has written long poems, for his own private pleasure, invites you to discover the incomparable delights of metre, rhyme and verse forms.Whether you want to write a Petrarchan sonnet for your lovers birthday, an epithalamion for your sisters wedding or a villanelle excoriating the governments housing policy, The Ode Less Travelled will give you the tools and the confidence to do so. Brimful of enjoyable exercises, witty insights and simple stepbystep advice, The Ode Less Travelled guides the reader towards mastery and confidence in the Mother of the Arts.

Binding: Paperback;384 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: DSC; Weight: 390 g; Dimensions: 196 x 129 x 25

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