PaP: List of Poetry about Poetry

• Patience Abgabi
  • Transformatrix
• Joseph Addison
  • "An Account of the Greatest English Poets"
• A.R.Ammons
  • "Classic"
• Auden
  • In memory of WB Yeats
• Pat Blackledge
  • "I'm not a verse" (Poetry Nottingham International, V54.4, 2000)
• Anne Bradstreet
  • "The Author to Her Book"
• Callimachus
  • Prologue to the Aitia
• Lewis Carroll
  • Poeta Fit. Non Nascitur
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • "On Donne's Poetry"
  • Metrical feet
• Billy Collins
  • "Workshop"
• Wendy Cope
  • "Making cocoa for Kingsley Amis"
  • "Engineers Corner"
  Emily Dickenson
  • "This is my letter to the world"
• Tom Disch
  • A Tale of Two Metres
• Austin Dobson
  • "On the Future of Poetry"
• Rita Dove
  • "First Book"
• Michael Drayton
  • Sonnets to idea
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • "A Coney Island of the Mind, # 15"
• Stuart Flynn
  • "Just Another Day in a Poet's Study" (Acumen 41)
• Robert Francis
  • "Catch"
• Sam Gardiner
  • "Principia Poetica" (The Rialto 40, 1998)
• Bernard Gilhooly
  • "Fragmentary", iota 56
• Dana Gioia
  • "My Confessional Sestina"
  • "The Next Poem"
• Nikki Giovanni
  • "kidnap poem"
  • "poem" (for langston hughes)
  • "poetry"
• WS Graham
  • "The Beast in the Space"
• Thomas Gray
  • "The Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode"
• Paul Groves
  • "Chauvinist Verse" (Thumbscrew 16, Summer 2000)
• David HW Grubb
  • "The Complete Works" (Iota 52)
• Michael S.Harper
  • "On Brodsky's Collected" (Stand 2(4)/3(1))
• Seamus Heaney
  • "Digging"
• Horace
  • Epistles (various, especially II.iii)
• A.E. Housman
  • "Terrence, This is Stupid Stuff"
• Ted Hughes
  • "The Thought Fox"
• John Hussey
  • "Competition Entry" (Chiltern Writers Group Open Competition 2000)
• Robinson Jeffers
  • "To the Stone Cutters"
• Elizabeth Jennings
  • "Steps Towards Poems"
• Ben Jonson
  • "A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme"
• John Keats
  • "On the Sonnet"
  • "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"
  • "Sleep and Poetry"
  • "If by dull rhymes our English must be chain'd"
• Ursula Kiernan
  • "Hang About!" (Iota 52)
• Naoshi Koriyama
  • "A Loaf of Poetry"
  • "Unfolding Bud"
• Harry Lovelock
  • "Collected Verse" (Envoi 127)
• Archibald MacLeish
  • "Ars Poetica"
• Roger McGough
  • "it's Only a P..."
• Eve Merriam
  • "How to Eat a Poem"
  • "Inside a Poem"
• Edna St Vincent Millay
  • "I will put Chaos into fourteen lines"
• Barriss Mills
  • "Gone Forever"
• Czeslaw Milosz
  • "To Robert Lowell" (Stand 2(4)/3(1))
• Elma Mitchell
  • "This Poem..."
• Marianne Moore
  • "Poetry"
• Helena Nelson
  • "Villainelle" (Poetry Nottingham International, V54.1, 2000)
  • "To Claude, without whom ..." (Envoi 129)
  • "Warning" (Envoi 129)
  • "Blood" (Envoi 129)
• Pablo Neruda
  • "Poetry"
• Bob Newman
  • "Entasis" (Poetry Nottingham International, V54.4, 2000)
• Dennis O'Driccoll
  • "The Next Poem" (Quality Time, Anvil)
• Donny O'Rourke
  • "Dr Poetry (trust me)"
• Alexander Pope
  • "An Essay on Criticism"
  • "Sound and Sense"
• Peter Porter
  • "The Lying Art"
• Ishmael Reed
  • "beware: do not read this poem"
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • "The House of Life: The Sonnet"
• Guy Russell
  • "MA in Poetry Writing" (The Rialto 47, 2000)
  • "One-night stanzas" (iota 53)
• Gary Snyder
  • "Ax Handles"
• William Stafford
  • "You, Reader, My Name is William Tell"
• Mark Strand
  • "Eating Poetry"
  • "The Great Poet Returns"
• Wallace Stevens
  • "Of Modern Poetry,"
• Elmer Suderman
  • "We Must Try Words"
• David Sutton
  • "The Birth of Poems" from "A Holding Action" (Peterloo)
• May Swenson
  • "Answer to Question: How to Become a Poet"
• Wislawa Szymborska
  • "Some Like Poetry"
• James Tate
  • "Teaching the Ape to Write Poems"
• Dylan Thomas
  • "In my craft or sullen art"
• Anthony Thwaite
  • "The Art of Poetry: Two Lessons" (The Rialto 38, 1997)
• Paul Verlaine
  • "Art Poétique"
• Judith Viorst
  • "Sometimes Poems"
• Carol Washer
  • "Political Correctness" (Acumen 31, May 1998)
• Richard Wilbur
  • "The Writer"
• William Carlos Williams
  • "Poem"
• William Wordsworth
  • "Scorn not the Sonnet"
  • "A Poet! He Hath Put his Heart to School"
• David Wright
  • "Words"
• Al Young
  • "For Poets"