The Writer’s Little Book of Meter

Tips and Tricks for Writing with Rhythm

Metrical verse is hugely popular when it takes the form of song lyrics, and yet its written cousin has fallen out of fashion in recent decades. To help guide writers unfamiliar with matters metrical through the thicket of terms and concepts, Hugo Award-winning poet Marie Brennan offers up not only a brief introduction to iambs and dactyls, tetrameters and pentameters, but advice on how to go about drafting rhythmic poetry — including ways the rules can be bent and broken!

This, the first of three poetry-focused installments in the Writer’s Little Books series, is available for pre-order now! It will be released on October 6th.