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The Sonnet: A Beginner’s Guide

11th Feb 20204th Apr 2020 ~ Rosie Wood ~ Leave a comment

I often think of a sonnet as a swan- romantically gliding across the surface of a lake, while beneath the surface the flippers of poetic artistry are working ten-to-the-dozen. (not the most seamless of metaphors, but anyway.) Sonnets seem like a straight forward poetic form, but they are far more tricky to do in practice. … Continue reading The Sonnet: A Beginner’s Guide

Hi there! I’m Rosie Wood, I have been writing poetry avidly for 13 years (unlucky for some!)

When I was a teen, one of my guiltiest (and nerdiest) pleasures was getting a pencil and a poetry book and scribbling my amateur analysis all over it.

One English Literature degree and half a postgraduate creative writing degree later, I hope that my current book scribblings aren’t quite as sacreligious!

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