20 Minutes of EXPERT Poetry Writing Advice (Beginner Friendly)

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There are so many great books out there on how to become a better poet, writer, and artist generally. In this video we discuss the amazing American poet Mary Oliver's poetry craft book, A Poetry Handbook. This is the first video of a series I'm going to do about the best poetry writing books out there. If you want to improve your poems, understand poetry more deeply, or have an urgent assignment for your poetry and literature class, this may be the video for you. I highly recommend this book, seeing as it's just over 100 pages and will teach any poetry beginner many of the preliminary tools of the trade. Whether you are writing love poetry, sad poetry, funny poetry, or poetry about your dog or cat, check out this excellent writing guide.
Timestamps
00:00: Introduction
02:38: (1) Getting Ready
04:16: (2) Poems are Passionate Relationships
05:49: (3) Imitation
06:35: (4) Sounds in Poetry (5) (Omitted)
09:43: (6) Variation in Poetry
12:04: (7) Free Verse
13:58: (8) Imagery
16:14: (9) Figurative Language (Simile and Metaphor in Poetry)
18:04: (10) Revision
20:10: Essential Oliver Quote from The Poetry Handbook
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[@nathanhassallpoetry]

What's your favorite piece of poetry writing advice?
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Correction for point #5, I spelled "imitation" as "immitation." Please do not imitate me 😂

[@RenskevdWaal]

Start

[@nathanhassallpoetry]

@@RenskevdWaal Agree. And then what?

[@RenskevdWaal]

@@nathanhassallpoetry feel like a failure..., until you don't.
Then its time to start, with something new or deepen your skills and...
Start (again) 😉

[@nathanhassallpoetry]

@@RenskevdWaal Totally agree with this. You've gotta start as a fool. Good poems take 1000s of not so good ones. Practice by writing and also by reading. I made this channel to help poets and spread the good word(s) of poetry. I'll make more videos about the necessity of being a fool in the future. The fool is curious!

[@michaellitteral4499]

Sunday poetry lesson, who could ask for anything better!

[@SharonHassall-d9k]

Such an informative and inspiring video

[@deforeestwright2469]

Gorgeously edited. Interesting and informative. 😂

[@rachaelkraft9992]

Love Mary Oliver 😍

[@nathanhassallpoetry]

Me too. This book impacted me (and so many other poets, poetry students, and poetry teachers) immensely.

[@Zoe-fj7dd]

Fantastic video 😍

[@nathanhassallpoetry]

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