I have started working my way through Kate Clanchy's book How to Grow your own Poem. I would like to be able to write and print my own poems - I attempted this with my poem In This Time.
The ideas to spend an hour a week doing the exercises Kate sets out whilst sitting in a local coffee shop with Fiona working on her stuff.
The exercise included randomly selecting nouns and definitions - so I was using 16 small pieces of paper to help with this. And then I transcribed the nouns and definitions into my poem - still to be tidied up.
Fiona and I have begun our process of creating pieces for International Peace Day on 21 September. One of the things this year is to make peace button.
Of course there are a few casualties.
But there will be a good selection to go out into the world.
I have been having trouble posting. I wonder if this one will work.Penny.
ReplyDeletelove that you are making buttons ... and you have so much good material to work with!
ReplyDeleteI had conveniently forgotten the "casualties" part of the process ... but the end result is well-worth the "pain"
a Dada poem 100 years on! "Tzara's 1920 manifesto proposed cutting words from a newspaper and randomly selecting fragments to write poetry, a process in which the synchronous universe itself becomes an active agent in creating the art."
ReplyDeletelove your Peace buttons!
What a lovely idea to have a peace button. Seems I can post in comments again.
ReplyDeleteHi P, LA and MC - it always brings me joy to see old friends dropping in and commenting on my blogs - good to have one's tribe sharing the art wandering we all do. P - your comments are coming through now - thanks. LA - thanks for your comment about the material - Fiona's idea of course. I have improved my technique and understanding of the machine so now on a very odd casualty. MC - that is a great technique. Thanks re the peace buttons - managed to completed 150. All go well. B
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