The Roar on the Other Side: A Guide for Student Poets
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The Roar on the Other Side: A Guide for Student Poets

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Suzanne Rhodes, a longtime poet and teacher, offers "The Roar on the Other Side" as an introductory guide for students (junior high and up). Clear and imaginative, this book makes poetry approachable. Focusing on the importance of sight and the necessity of practice, Rhodes easily communicates the joy of words to her readers and helps them see how good poetry bin...more
Paperback, 190 pages
Published October 1st 2000 by Canon Press
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Grace D.
I am no writer and certainly no poet.
That said, this book is a great resource to learn about using words in a logical and beautiful way. Very helpful resource.
The Gatekeeper
The Gatekeeper rated it 5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for: Christian poets, mainly, but any writer can benefit from it
Recommended to The Gatekeeper by: Becca Bice
The only books that I read when I was younger about how to write poetry were written by people who weren't poets. Sometimes they weren't even good writers. So I was very glad to find a whole book about writing poetry that was written by a poet. I could really tell the difference. The whole book reads like poetry; and it not only taught me more about how to write poems, it inspired me to write more. It also contains a lot of great poems by other authors, which, in my opinion, make it worth buying...more
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I read this. And I still write lousy poetry. But that's just me.
Christopher
This is a good intro to poetry. I really appreciated it.
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