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poems
poetry
poems in general, or the art of writing them:
• He reads a lot of poetry. • She wrote poetry and children’s stories. • a poetry book
verse
words arranged in the form of poetry:
• a book of comic verse
anthology
a set of poems by different people collected together in one book:
• an anthology of Caribbean poetry
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noun ADJ. good, great | classical | contemporary, modern | 18th-century, etc. | dramatic, epic, heroic, lyric, narrative | Modernist, Romantic, symbolist, etc. | love, pastoral, war, etc. QUANT. line He began his speech with a few lines of poetry. | piece | anthology, book, collection, volume VERB + POETRY compose, write | read | recite | learn by heart At school we had to learn a lot of poetry by heart. POETRY + NOUN book, collection | reading She invited me to one of her poetry readings. | competition, workshop | group PREP. in ~ an essay on imagery in poetry
Oxford Collocations Dictionary