Poetry Monthly

Join us on a quest to write a poem a month based on a range of exciting themes and styles. All you need to do to get started is read the brief below, let your imagination soar and get scribbling.  Once you’ve finished writing and pruning your piece, you can share it on ABC Tales and see what superbly varied work emerges from the same brief.

If you’d like to take it a step further, you can also seek critical feedback from your poetic peers because as all writers know, a poem’s never really done. If you fancy getting get involved, please post your finished piece by June 30th with the subheading ‘Poetry Monthly’ on it. Criticism isn’t compulsory but any participants who would welcome some positive critical feedback must say so in the comments section underneath their work.

The Brief:  Fantastical fairy tale poetry -  Mythic, surreal, fantasy and folklore 

 

  • Rewrite a fairytale, ponder an old story, consider a myth’s history from an unusual perspective, reconstruct a folk tale with an urban spin or take a character on a surreal journey, make or break with narrative tradition.
  • For visual prompts, check out Kirsty Mitchell’s gorgeous fairytale photography or for more traditional images, see Arthur Rackham’s illustrations. You can find both on the internet –although Kirsty Mitchell’s images are copyrighted, there some free Rackham’s images on Flker Creative Commons and Wikimedia Commons if you look hard enough.
  • You could consider fairytales and Freud, there’s a stacks of psychoanalytic theory behind those stories that make you see it all in a startling new light.

Whatever you do, enjoy.

 

Comments

Sounds good! smiley

Inspiring idea!

 

This is VeraClark's idea. She and a few other poets collaborated last year and it was such a success she and I thought it might be nice to widen the field this time around!

 

Great Idea.. I'm in and perhaps we can publish it as an eBook and ABC writers use the proceeds to come downunder for a Summer Christmas  yes

Comeondown

I'm irrationally excited about poetry monthly. It's so exciting to see the different ones popping up.