Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
Welcome to Day Five! Write a poem that uses each of your five senses in turn to describe the experience of a day in your (real or imagined) life. As always, it’s about details – be specific, and go beyond the obvious. Try playing with perspectives – near and far, up and down, inside and …
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Today’s task is to write a list poem of at least sixteen lines on the theme of the things that support you. How you interpret “support” is up to you. Physically. Emotionally. Economically. Socially. Technical support. Architectural supports. However you want to take it. The key here is to use lots of really specific detail. …
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Day three: hanging in there? Today’s exercise is a classic: the ode. A public poem in praise of something or someone. And because they don’t get celebrated anywhere near enough, your subject should be one of those people toiling away to keep us all going during this lockdown and crisis – supermarket workers, nurses, cleaners, …
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Over the Easter/Passover break in 2015, a group of enterprising senior citizens made a little after-hours excursion to the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company … yes, the infamous Hatton Garden Heist was five years ago today. As a tip of the hat, your task is to write a poem about stealing something, beginning your poem …
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[Apologies if this turns up twice for some people – it disappeared around midday, so I reposted.] Your first exercise is to write a poem about a time when you were locked out – maybe of your house, your car, the bathroom, your dorm, whatever. And yes, you may invent an occasion if you’ve never …
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A Dark Feathered Art 