Welcome to the Poet's Toolkit by Pocketry. On this page you'll find a whole stack of free online resources to help you improve your writing and develop your craft.

If you have any great tools or free resources to add to this list, please send an e-mail to hello @ indraniperera dot com with 'Poet's Toolkit' in the subject line so they can be added to the list.

 

Creative Process

Interviews

Divedapper

 

Reading Poetry

Books & Anthologies

20 Poets, a Free Anthology from Cordite Books

Gingko Eco Poetry Anthology 2020 from The Poetry School

New Shoots Poetry Anthology from Red Room

Writing Water - Rain, River, Reef from Red Room

Poetry We Admire from Palette Poetry 

Raining Poetry in Adelaide from Saltbush Review

 

Essays

Experience, Experiment: Using Black poetry in creative writing classes by Patrica Spears Jones

Australian Ecopoetics Past, Present, Future: What Do the Plants Say? by John Charles Ryan

Nature Writing Project from Island Magazine

 

Online Literary Journals

Blue Nib (Ireland)

Cordite (Australia)

Not Very Quiet (Australia)

Plumwood Mountain (Australia)

Teesta Review (India)

The Night Heron Barks (USA)

 

Other

Australian Poetry Library (AUS)

Best Poems Enyclopedia

 

Podcasts

Pocketry Presents with Indrani Perera (AUS)

Poetry In Process with Owen Bullock (AUS)

Poetry Says with Alice Allan (AUS)

Poetry Unbound with Paidrag O'Tuama (UK)

The Verb with Ian McMillan (UK)

 

Videos

Button Poetry (USA)

Moving Poems (USA/AUS)

 

Writing Poetry

Books (not free but worth the $$$)

Kate Clanchy How To Grow Your Own Poem

Mary Oliver The Poetry Handbook 

The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms

 

Courses

How to Make a Poem from Manchester Metropolitan University on Future Learn

Sharpened Visions : A Poetry Workshop with Douglas Kearnney at Coursera

 

Writing Groups

Live Write from Writers Victoria

 

Editing Poetry

Article

Christian Bök's 10 Rules for Writing Poetry

 

Getting Published

Podcast

Pocketry Presents - Episode 10: Getting Published

 

Publishers

Australian Publishers Directory from Poetry Sydney

 

Organisations

Australian Poetry (AUS)

Poetry Society (UK)

Poetry Foundation (USA)

 

Tools

Rhyme Zone - an online tool to find rhymes, synonyms, adjectives, antonyms, homophones, definitions, quotes and more.

 

Visit Pocketry's Poetry page for a list of poets and books we recommend reading.