Create a Poem

Create a Poem makes a wonderful gift of inspiration. I especially enjoyed the way each page included words to weave in as a challenge the writer. A clever and enjoyable book upcoming and experienced poets alike.

This is a personal workbook that allows a user to create poetry, in rhyme or free verse - personal choice. Readers are given a word, to create a poem about, and ten words that are to be included in the poem. The book includes line space to write the poem into the book.

There are over 200 themes, With ten words to be included in the poem, it is a challenge. In order to review this book, I wrote one poem, using the book's topic: Life and the words: state, spirit, body, destiny, memory, time, sacrifice, purpose, existence, and death. The poem was intense. It can be a challenge to use all ten words in a poem!

I would suggest the book as an excellent choice for adult writers or a creative writing class in college or high school. Given the subject, as well as the ten specific words to use in the poem, the free verse seems to flow quickly. Yet, having to use all ten words could be somewhat limiting, so poets might want to vary their writings and simply use the word list as a suggestion for some of their poetry.

This book/journal is fantastic for getting creativeness to flow. I really love it and will be acquiring a copy because I feel it will really inspire me to write. The editors inspire you by letting you take the prompts and interpret them in your unique voice. They don't even suggest following a format and I found that really impressive as I am not one to follow the pack.
This isn't ideal for a library as patrons would try to write in it, but would make the perfect gift for those that like words and playing around with them.
A wonderful resource to look forward to when it is published.

This is exactly what it says it is. A book wherein each page is a word topic, a full page of wide-spaced lines for writing, and ten prompt words at the bottom to help you associatively consider the topic.

I did feel some poetry form examples interspersed throughout the open space, or quotes from poets about writing, would have helped add a little more depth and personality to the journal.

Create A Poem would make an encouraging gift to a beginning writer and/or be a handy way to establish a daily writing habit.

Thank you to NetGalley and Chartwell Books for an ecopy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This is a gorgeous poetry journal with supportive prompts that offer something for everyone. I am considering buying myself a paper copy.

Create a Poem
Writing Prompts for Poets
by Editors of Chartwell Books
Quarto Publishing Group – Chartwell Books
Chartwell Books
Poetry
Pub Date 09 Mar 2021


I am reviewing a copy of Create a Poem: Writing Prompts for Poets through Chartwell books and Netgalley:




Poetry has been a record of history long before we had technology or even had cities. This journal helps you to dive into writing poetry, and taking part in that history, no matter your level of history.


This journal will allow you to start your writing exercise by selecting a topic that will help spark an idea.


This journal will help you connect through the legacy of poetry, using senses and everyday aspects of life, as well as allowing you to answer the bigger questions about life, including faith, family, love, and who we are.



There are many prompts divided into subjects that will help you get your creative juices flowing.



If you are looking for a book to help you with ideas for creating powerful poetry, I highly recommend Create A Poem: Writing Prompts for Poets.


I give Create A Poem five out of five stars!


Happy Reading!

As many teachers may do, Create-a-Poem offers up a list of poetry-writing prompts, although in this case, the prompts are spare: single words only, no questions asked or scenarios given. This is nice on the one hand, because it allows a great deal of freedom to take that prompt in any direction. On the other hand, reader-writers who need more direction may find this aspect frustrating. “Give us more direction!” they may cry. “We need you to spell it out for us!”

Because this is a perfectly valid learning style, I understand the inconvenience that might arise for some. But the authors have anticipated this, as well, though perhaps not in the explicit way a few reader-writers may find sufficient. On the same page as every prompt word, at the bottom (below the space for writing a draft), there is a word bank: suggestions for more specific topics you might address in your poems, or if not that, vocabulary to choose from if you can’t find the right word.

The strength of this feature is that it shares words/concepts for an array of reader-writers—not only the erudite, not only the experienced, but also the beginner, the teenager who has yet to have SAT vocabulary cram sessions, or someone who isn’t as confident in their word choices.

Likewise, the prompts themselves have a wide range. We have the classic topics of poetic discussion: friendship, nature, love, death, and so on. But we also have such prompts as furniture, transportation, mutation, edge, go, folk, and pattern—things that aren’t likely to come up in a beginners’ workshop.

Variety is still the spice of life, no matter how long that cliché goes on, and the authors seem to grasp that instinctively. For that reason, Create-a-Poem is a good resource both for those who are looking to write poetry on their own as well as people who lead creative writing or English classes, including the newly-initiated homeschoolers of the pandemic. It would serve especially well as a source of writing warm-ups prior to digging into the day’s tasks, such as editing and drafting. Happy writing!

As someone who used to write simple rhyming poetry, I found this book to be really helpful to get the wheels rolling again. I loved that there were words you needed to use to write the poem, it made it so much easier for me

It is a very entertaining book where you can create poems, and create them according to what they tell you in each one, for example of the family, and it tells you what words should be in the poem, this helps us to develop our brain more to create poems, it helps us to create some poem with the specifications. My reason for not giving it a five-star rating was, there are more than two hundred poems to do, and one does not take less than five minutes to make a good poem, so it would take us a long time to finish that book, much longer than reading one. of those pages, although I did really enjoy being able to make poems, I made ten in three days and I loved being able to have the opportunity to improve my poetry, but I still say that it is a lot.

Desire is red,
Despair is blue,
This collection of poetry prompts is just for you!
The pages are lined and waiting,
There's words to include: baiting.
Each page has a focus word,
So you'll never be bored.
Write what you want to become a poet,
You can do it and you know it.
Write down what's in your brain and heart,
Now: There's no better time to start!

I felt like this poetry journal warranted a poem as part of its review. There were some word associations that didn't jive for me, but overall, it could be a nice home for those who want to dabble into poetry.

"Create a Poem" is a great book/journal to inspire aspiring poets to push the limits of their minds. It is a lined book in journal style, containing a title on each page with ten related words at the bottom to be used in writing a poem.

It reminded me of my first year in my uni, when I took a class on Modern literature, in which we were told to write a poem by changing the words of famous poems. The first one was "The Red WheelBarrow" by William Carlos Williams and it took about maybe one to three minutes to write. It taught me if you have something to say and the right tools, you can write about anything without overthinking. That was how my journey with writing poetry started. This might be the perfect way to practice writing skills and discover your own style and poetic voice. It takes hours to find the right words if you are having a writer's block but with this book, you can get inspired.

I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review from NetGalley.