The poet's companion: a guide to the pleasures of writing poetry

Subjects for writing : Writing and knowing ; The family: inspiration and obstacle ; Death and grief ; Writing the erotic ; The shadow ; Witnessing ; Poetry of place

The poet's craft : Images ; Simile and metaphor ; The music of the line ; Voice and style ; Stop making sense: dreams and experiments ; Meter, rhyme, and form ; Repetition, rhythm, and blues ; More repetition: villanelle, pantoum, sestina ; A grammatical excursion ; The energy of revision

The writing life : Self-doubt ; Writer's block ; Writing in the electronic age ; Getting published

Twenty-minute writing exercises

Appendixes : A. Books on poetry and writing

B. Anthologies for further reading

C. Finding markets for your poems

D. More resources for writers.