Book Quote by Helen Dunmore

My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of…

— Kate Thompson

I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

— Taslima Nasrin

I never try to force poems into a collection simply because they were written/published within a certain period of time. They will eventually find…

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published.…

— Helen Dunmore

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

— Tony Buzan

My first book of poems was published privately in 1949. That was my mother. The book was '25 Poems.' It cost 200 dollars.

— Derek Walcott

“My Poetry book ”

— Rabisha

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

— Tao Lin

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

— Anonymous

I have some weak poems in that new collection, which is why I'm not ready to send the collection out yet.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out there on…

— Willie Nelson

One of the most treasured books that I own is Donald Allen's 'The New American Poetry, 1945-1960.' It was a totem of great importance…

— Peter Coyote