The Villanelle Collection is a selection of twenty villanelles written by Kimberley Leighton and Ferrick Gray. This small volume has found its way into some twenty-seven state libraries as an example of formal poetry.

Today, the villanelle is accepted to be a nineteen-line poem consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain using two rimes in a specified order. Throughout the poem there are two repeated lines, called the refrain. The beauty of the villanelle lies in its song-like nature and their refrains impart this musical quality.

Due to upload restrictions, this collection has been supplied as a PDF.