Found Poems
Photocopy a page of a book or magazine and create your poem artistically on the page.
I graciously acknowledge my source material – Brave New World and Night and Day magazine.
I was introduced to this technique on an Open University Creative Writing course and I love it – great for days when you have writer’s block or for if you think you can’t do poetry!
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Lovely review! This looks great.
Lovely post! I enjoyed this book :)
I can totally see why. So glad I randomly had the first one.
Great review, I picked this up and I didn't realise it was the second book and I struggled a lot wit
Thank you. It’s such a good book.
Superb review.
Thanks. The more that join in the merrier.
Very interesting challenge!
This is a great tip, and one I shall plunder for the next impromptu creative writing group I run- thank you! Now, I wonder if my Big Girl would like to help mummy find a poem….
Thanks Claire. I think you could make them really pretty with glitter and everything if you wanted.
I love this idea Kirsty. I saw something similar that had been done with paintings in an exhibition in Edinburgh but never thought of doing poetry! A tutor on a course I did has written found poems based on talks he had with prison inmates when he was a poet in residence. I have started writing found poems based on my elderly parents’ memories of WW2.
I loved this bit on the OU course and use it to introduce poetry to people that think they can’t write it. The found poetry you are writing sounds very interesting.
I have now written my first found poem based on a page in a published book – Sea Wolf by Jack London. Thanks again for the idea.
Hi Carol,
Great to hear – have you posted it anywhere?