Poetry Monthly

I hope your summer’s full of sun and laughter. Thank you to Blackjack Davey for last month’s brief of enchantment, there were some traditional narratives and symbolic twists emerging in your pieces. This month, let's encourage even more collaboration! Encourage your fellow writers and friends to have a crack at our monthly briefs. Share them on social media. Here’s three magic poems from July:

Heavenly imagery about a parent’s love:

http://www.abctales.com/story/londoncalling79/my-sons-poetry-monthly

A watchtower alive with music and shape:

http://www.abctales.com/story/noo/watchtower-poetry-monthly

The haunting, emotive ballad of Annie Gray:

http://www.abctales.com/story/linda-wigzell-cress/ballad-annie-gray-poetry-monthly

Then to August: Synaesthesia refers to a neurological condition in which one of the five senses involuntarily and automatically stimulates another. Different parts of the brain responsible for identifying colour, sound, taste or smell become interlinked. A brief example is that people experience music with a specific smell or numbers as colours.  

Within literature, synaesthesia is a metaphorical technique by which one sense is characterised in terms of another: a yellow purr / quiet blue / red slam / serrated waltz. What is the sound of green? What flavour is the number 9? What scent does a certain song have? Try this in your poetry, think of vibrant sensual fusions to invigorate. A simple exercise to start off by is coupling two senses together and start your multi-sensory explosions from there. Enjoy.

Thanks, and see you in the autumn,

Ray

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