Converse of object

• recite: They don't earn millions of dollars per film reciting poetry.

• write: Writing poetry is a major part of my lone hours.

• compose: Singing, playing instruments, dancing, painting and composing poetry are all various ways of expressing human emotions in a creative manner.

• translate: She lives in Budapest, where apart from writing and translating poetry, she designs and produces stained glass windows.

Adjective modifier

• Persian: We may begin with a brief sketch of the periods and styles of Persian poetry and then consider its development... .

• Gaelic: No wonder: the lowland Scottish intelligentsia were not interested in mediating authentic Gaelic poetry to the Germans.

• contemporary: So is this an accurate map of what is going on in contemporary German poetry - assuming such a thing were possible?

• Hebrew: Genesis 1 is not written according to the laws of Hebrew poetry.

• romantic: Darwin credited her with inventing a poetic form, the epic elegy and she is clearly a major contributor to romantic poetry.

Modifies a noun

• Bookshelf: Welcome to the Children's Poetry Bookshelf The CPB was set up by the Poetry Book Society to support poetry written for children.

• anthology: Meanwhile he was always working on books at intervals, mostly literary criticism, poetry anthologies and biography.

• slam: It's behind the Zodiac, together with the Hammer and Tongue poetry slam space.

• reading: I heard Jackie Marshall last weekend at a poetry reading in Brisbane.

• competition: She has also won the National Poetry Competition twice.

• pamphlet: The poetry pamphlets are reported by hospice staff to have been well received in these care units.

Noun used with modifier

• lyric: On the other hand lyric poetry exploits the full range of meaning implicit in words.

• epic: John Dryden ( 1631-1700 ) also wrote epic poetry, on classical and biblical subjects.

• sentinel: Sentinel Poetry ( Online ) is not supported by any public funding or grants.

• slam: She is the UK slam poetry champion and former Private Secretary to Home Secretary David Blunkett.

• seventeenth-century: What we don't get is a sense of the scene of writing of seventeenth-century poetry and prose.