Hey poemries,
Oblog here. I have an idea. What about doing a communal poem type thing based on small narrative repeated in loads of different styles just like Queneau's Excercises in style.
I thought our initial text could be an introduction to a poem and then we repeat the same intro in a different stlye. Some examples from exercises in style include . . . .
reported speech, passive, exclamations, onomatapea's (I know I didn't spell that right, you know what I meant), haiku, mathematical . . . .the possibilities are endless and it would be quite funny to play around with the whole ridiculously long intro to a peom thing that we all do from time to time.
I could post up a 80 word starter and we could each reproduce the text in a few different styles. For performance maybe we play around with reading over each other a bit or reading some bits together? I don't know?
What do you guys think?
Check out this comic version based on the same idea
2 comments:
I LOVE this idea. This would be brilliant. Was it you Abi? Or you Jamie? We can incorporate uses of our own names (my only idea so far - but I just love the idea of creating that false/heightened presence)
Holly
This was Abi - the best idea yet. We could use a found piece of text, dictort it by adding our own names, and then riff off it as variations. Gotta dash now, but will come back later and post an example.
Jamie
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