Poetry Monthly

Prose-poetry went off like a box of premium fireworks this month. Some gorgeous work from all. Here’s three crackers

LondonCalling’s hike explored the fickle circularities of love:

http://www.abctales.com/story/londoncalling79/horizons-just-circle-poetry-monthly

Bear’s inspirational dialect combined wit with birds, knickers and ‘oles:

http://www.abctales.com/story/bear/truckles-owls-poetry-monthly-%E2%80%93-sort

BJD did extraordinary things with sugar:

http://www.abctales.com/story/blackjack-davey/sugar-poetry-monthly

Say surrealism and you might think of Andre Breton's Le Manifeste du Surréalisme (Manifesto of Surrealism) (1924). Concerned with the true function of thought, this movement was about expressing the workings of the unconscious with fantastic imagery, close observation of the dream state and the free play of thought. The brain naturally seeks out sense, so this month let go of coherence and logic. Find meaning, images and random connections where you wouldn’t instinctively go to create differently. Modern surrealist poets include Sarah Jackson and Selima Hill, some original ones include Charles Baudelaire and André Breton. Read a section from Breton’s ‘Free Union’ (1931) for inspiration:

‘My wife with legs of flares
With the movements of clockwork and despair
My wife with calves of eldertree pith
My wife with feet of initials
With feet of rings of keys and Java sparrows drinking.’

Thanks for your involvement.

Info Sources: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/brief-guide-surrealism   http://www.surrealism-plays.com/surrealistpoems.html   Photo Credit: http://tinyurl.com/hpxk6af