Creating Poetry is a book about how to write poetry, written by one of Australia’s best loved poets. A textbook, certainly, but much more, full of advice, wisdom, good humour and warnings of beginners’ mistakes. And full of poetry – excerpts and examples of work from the very best Australian and global poets, including many writing now. Ron Pretty's advice will help you transform a bad poem into something to be proud of. Ron covers simple exercises for the beginner, through to the complexities of the sonnet form, the villanelle, or the enjambments of modern verse. Creating Poetry first appeared in 1987, with a revised edition in 2001; for 2015 it has been completely rewritten, with new examples and nearly thirty years of additional experience . From being previously hard to find, once again every poetry lover and aspiring poet can keep a copy of this classic handbook for inspiration and reference.