Week Three: Poems and Exercises

Monday 29/8: Ed Wright and Utlimo Public School's 'Untitled'.
Exercise: Write a poem where the rhyming is on the first word of the line. 

Tuesday 30/8: Alicia Sometimes' 'Cold was the Ground'.
Exercise: Rewrite this poem in Twitter messages that also work as poems. 

Wednesday 31/8: Judith Bishop's 'Freight and Flight'.
Exercise: After reading the poem, write down that first word that comes to mind. Let that word be the 'seed' for a poem of your own.  

Thursday 1/9: Anthony Lawrence's 'A Sound for Leaving'.
Exercise: With images and exact description, write a poem using the calls of favourite birds. 

Friday 2/9: Brook Emery's 'Proof'.
Exercise: What shape could a conclusion be? Make a conclusion 'shape poem' in which conclusion words, and specific conclusions fill the space. 

Saturday 3/9: Jill Jones' 'Six Temperamental Sonnets' 
Exercise: This is a poem made of questions. Without reusing Jones' words, write a poem that works as the other part of the dialogue.  

Sunday 4/9: Briony Doyle's 'The widest wide shot'
Exercise: Imagine you have found this poem, buried in a time capsule. Describe the other contents of the time capsule in a poem of your own. 

Monday 5/9: Ian McBryde's 'Beyond Omerta'
Exercise: Write three lines that describe what happens to your street, garden or room as the sun goes down. 

Tuesday 6/9: Clair Potter's 'Bird-Card for Lingis'
Exercise: Make a list of words you love to say and write, and find a way of arranging them into four or five lines. 

Wednesday 7/9: Lachlan Brown's 'Evensong'
Exercise: Go for a walk past your neighbours' houses and create a poem that describes your vision of the street. 

Thursday 8/9: Adam Aitken 'Costumes'
 Exercise: Head to the library or bookshop. Look for a poem idea in the titles on the book spines.

Thursday 9/9: Craig Sherborne 'Totalizator'
Exercise: Write a poem that is also a  list: a shopping list or a list of memories. Does your list poem also suggest a story?