Verse Voice Prints

'Then it's agreed. It doesn't have to rhyme.'

"Do me next."

Sign in a bookshop window offers chance to meet the narrator of the audio book.

'We're out of earshot now, so you can drop the phoney, Oxbridge accent.'

How a poet works

A Poem about Sand

Poetry in motion - Runners quoting poems as they jog.

I'm a songbird. He's my lyricist.

'This is all without rhyme or reason.'

It's more than a mike!

Alexander Pope

Testing...Testing...1...2..3...

The Poet.

Walt Whitman sounds his barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

Louise Glück

Richard Graves.

'You're an interesting combination of shallow and thick.'

Dame Edna Sitwell

Poet Joyce Kilmer is struck with inspiration for his poem "trees".

Poet's Corner

'Your poetry totally captures the raw, primitive essence of the writing workshops you've attended.'

Seamus Heaney.

"It's for weird minds - they're not wired like mine...oh! I'm a poet and didn't know it!"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Stanescu.

Ezra Pound

Participants in the Poetry Writing Workshop imagine that they are imaginary persons in a situation of their own imagination.

"Hi honey, could you run by the bookstore on the way home? We're almost out of poetry."

Warriner's Efficient Poetry

Beware of Doggerel

'Poet Laureate' door 'Gone to lunch-back twixt 2 &3'

"And you can quote me on that."

Women pro tennis players having a conversation

'You're on our turf, this is poet's corner.' 'It may be your corner, friend, but it's on writers block.'

"I believe doctors write too many prescriptions, Mr. Martin. I'm writing you a sonnet."