ABSTRACT
The short poem is not a genre, though there are species of poem – epitaphs, limericks, and so on – which are short.The category ‘short poem’ is therefore hardly precise, and really only connotes shortness, and examples are as various as can be. So this chapter is necessarily miscellaneous, and the writing suggestions correspondingly less sequential in feel, with perhaps heady plunges from serious to frivolous and back.On the other hand, they offer a range of things to try out quickly.
