Becoming a Poet
Young Poets’ Stories of Composition and Creative Development
Becoming a Poet
Young Poets’ Stories of Composition and Creative Development
Buying pre-order items
Ebooks and Audiobook
You will receive an email with a download link for the ebook or audiobook on the publication date.
Payment
You will not be charged for pre-ordered books until they are available to be shipped. Pre-ordered ebooks will not be charged for until they are available for download.
Amending or cancelling your order
For orders that have not been shipped you can usually make changes to pre-orders up to 72 hours before the publishing date.
Payment for this pre-order will be taken when the item becomes available
Description
Becoming a Poet brings together a diverse group of acclaimed young writers to reflect on their composing processes, writing experiences and developing creative practices.
Finally giving youth writers the chance to share their own creative experiences, this book includes over 30 short essays in which young poets discuss and reflect on a poem they have written, talking about the journey from draft to final version. As well as offering unique insight into the minds of developing artists, these poets will also discuss key issues pertaining to the writing process:
- mentors, inspiration and influence
- how their poems developed
- their views on poetry and how this might have shaped their poem
- identity
- the importance of poetry for mental health
- their writing life and routines, including writing during a pandemic
- experiences of submitting, performing and publishing their work
- building poetry networks
Underpinned by research from the Young Poets' Stories project, the essays are accompanied by commentary from educators Sue Dymoke and Anthony Wilson to draw out key themes and takeaways with the hope of improving poetry writing courses in the future.
Offering the broadest snapshot of young, modern writers and alert to the ever-changing and dynamic ways artists come to and write poetry today, Becoming a Poet also offers practical guidance on such areas as submitting work, mentoring opportunities, competitions, writer's networks, grants and a list of poetry anthologies and collections to be inspired by. Championing young poets and putting them into dialogue with their peers, this is the ultimate exhibition of the voices of tomorrow.
Accessibility Information
Additional accessibility information
- EPUB 3.0
- Conforms with the requirements of EPUB Accessibility Spec v1.1
- WCAG level AA
- WCAG v2.2 compliant
- accessibility@bloomsbury.com
Hazards
The publication contains no hazards
Support for non-visual reading
- No accessibility features offered by the reading system, device or reading software are disabled or otherwise unusable with the product
- Has alternative text descriptions for images
Visual adjustments
Appearance of the text and page layout can be modified according to the capabilities of the reading system (font family and size, spaces, as well as color of background and text)
Navigation
- Page list to go to pages from the print source version
- Elements such as headings, tables, etc for structured navigation
- All or substantially all textual matter is arranged in a single logical reading order
- Content is enhanced with ARIA roles to optimize organization and facilitate navigation
- Purposes of all links are made clear
Rich content
Language tagging provided
Table of Contents
1. Introduction - Sue Dymoke (Nottingham Trent University, UK) and Anthony Wilson (University of Exeter, UK)
Part 1: Talking about my poem
2. A J Pettigrew
3. Annie Fan
4. Ginny Darke
5. Lydia Wei
6. Molly Groake
7. Kajol Marathe
8. Jacob Keenan
9. Laura Potts
10. Poppy Tully
11. Nadia Lines
12. Sarah Adegbite
13. Matthew Birch
14. Ella Stanton
14. Samyukta Sainath
Section 2: Key Topics
15. Rowan Jessop
16. Bryony Dawson
17. Hermione Marshall
18. Georgie Brooke
19. Ziqi Yan
20. Alix Green
21. Cyrus Larcombe
22. Julia Pearson
23. Claudia Taylor
24. Emily Breeds
25. Sophie Russell
26. Elijah Quinto
27. Commentary
28. Practical Guidance for Poets - Sue Dymoke and Anthony Wilson
29. Conclusions
References
Index
Product details
| Published | 12 Nov 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 208 |
| ISBN | 9781350360143 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 16 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Related Titles
