There is a variety of techniques you can use to create found poetry: You can take an existing fiction or non-fiction text and erase bits of it, leaving selected words and phrases that form a new text – a poem; You might select words and phrases from a text and rearrange them any way you […]
Day: September 1, 2015
Elephant Love
I follow Cheryl Merrill’s post on elephants, about which she is very passionate. I love the language she uses and have previously written a poem borrowing some of her words and illustrated with one of her amazing photographs (see my page Elephant Skin under Poetry). You can find Cheryl on cherylmerrill.com. I later developed it into something […]
Hurricane
I have just read an interesting post by mashed radish about the etymology of the word hurricane and it reminded of the Grace Nichols poem Hurricane Hits England, a poem I love to read and enjoyed teaching to high school students, The link below is one I found on YouTube, in which Grace Nichols reads the poem […]
White Rabbits!
It’s 1st September and, I suppose, the first day of autumn. There are apples in the grass below our apple trees and the bay tree isn’t bowing under the weight of raindrops. This week I must continue with The Haunted Tide. I will write a haiku or other poem as a warm-up exercise each morning […]
writing in north norfolk 