Poetry Workshop exercises

• 3 word game (use 3 given words in a poem)
• Chinese whispers
• Found poetry
• Say as much about person/reader/word-sounds as possible
• Picture postcards
• Fill the gaps (cloze procedure)
• Put in linebreaks
• Add a line/verse to a poem keeping in style.
• Put lines/verses in the right order
• Be a person/object from a famous painting
• Pick 5 headlines from a newspaper. Make a poem from them.
• Wander round a city. Write down everything you hear said into a mobile phone.
• Duet Poem (Maketa Groves). Tree talking to sunset, seaweed arguing with the moon
• "A moment learnt from"
• "A keepsake"
• Convert between poetry and prose
• If you usually write fast, try writing slow (and v.v.)
• Write in situations/places that you don't normally write in
• Come up with 10 un-poetic words ("thou", "plangent", etc) then use as many as you can in a poem
• Lists. List the places you've had a picnic, been sick, etc
• (virtual poetry workshop, exercise 6) Try writing an entire poem using monosyllabic (one beat) words only.