This year I am approaching the month very differently. For a start I am working to prompts, which I didn't before. The prompts put up on the NaPoWriMo section of The Poetry School webite are excellent and the NaPoWriMo website itself has some helpful ones. As well as offering useful triggers to get us writing, both sites also suggest poems to read in association with the prompts, and there are sometimes interviews with poets to view or listen to. It's so important to read if you want to write.
And this year we also have the excellent NaPoReMo (READ a poem a day) blog from poet Jo Bell, which gives us a new poem to read every day, together with comments and analysis.
If a prompt, or reading of another poem, sends me to an old poem of mine that needs revising, I go there on the day and do that work.
If a new poem is sparked I do that. So far it's working out at about 50/50, which is OK. The month is helping me to work on poetry every day and to feel I am at least 'getting somewhere'. Not sure where that is, but it is not where started, it is somewhere else ...
If you are a poet and fancy joining in, it's not too late, just jump in now! The links I have mentioned are below, and they will also lead you to any number of online closed groups on Facebook and elsewhere where poets are sharing their new poetry this month and finding ways to work together to improve their technique.
Here's today's poem from me, a 'found poem' from my Twitter feed, kicked off by the Poetry School prompt -- 'Technology Day'.
Here is the news
It’s described as the mother of all bombs.
Humans are the most innovative species.
Simple, yet delicate and concise.
Stock up with wine this weekend.
#DEC East Africa appeal, donate here.
Only today – #hot cross buns.
‘we are for ordinary
working people’
Thousands are living on the streets in Milton Keynes.
I’m reading in a volcanic garden.
In Russia poetry is respected, it gets people killed.
British adults are too busy to read, new research shows.
Reading poetry is good for your brain.
White wood-anemones blowing in April sun.
hashtag #Aleppo,
again
Dropping a massive bomb on a cave –
reminiscent of
what kids do when they slam rubber ducks
into the bath to
show Mam. @msHolborow
‘ordinary working
people’
hashtag #Aleppo,
again
Government drops plan to raise probate fees.
Talking about a love of the dead – maggots and all.
Venezuela’s anger is on the streets.
Recipes for Easter, with lamb.
A history of mass violence in Congo.
Next on The Echo Chamber…
hashtag #Aleppo,
again
Doctors on rota gaps – it’s terrifying night staff
‘it’s for ordinary
working people’
Police attacked in Paris, one dead
Allez France! Hashtag Le Pen.
Read about the funniest text break-ups.
A novel of suspense and surprises.
North Korea’s nuclear arsenal is real.
‘we are for ordinary
working people’
hashtag #Aleppo,
again
and finally…
Let’s
go fly a kite.LINKS:
http://www.napowrimo.net/2017/04/
https://poetryschool.com
https://belljarblog.wordpress.com/2017/04/15/naporemo
No comments:
Post a Comment