But for This Prior Knowledge is a ‘collaboration without design’ between Rupert Loydell and myself.
He has recently posted a set of 8 ‘Prior Knowledge’ paintings on his Stride magazine site, and having enjoyed seeing these so much I was prompted to write a set of linking found prose poems.
This work is collected in a pdf booklet, below, free to read and download. Enjoy. Let me know.
[Image by artist and photographer Nick Dormand]
[Found in Trump’s statement: this is the most aggressive and comprehensive effort to confront a foreign virus in modern history]
[Images by artist and photographer Nick Dormand]
Anyone who reads this blog and my thoughts on the Hirsch Knowledge Curriculum – so therefore Tory a la Cummings, Gove, Gibb, Toad, the Framework and so on – will understand [so much more than ‘know’] my views.
Therefore, my pleasure in seeing this today in a Sidmouth shop window. Of course, it is about product/s, but my imagination understands it more broadly, as did Einstein.
Thanks to IT. Read the poem here.
Having misread a line in a poetry review this morning, I wrote a found prose poem based on that, and this is often how I ‘find’ my prompts for writing.
The line misread was ‘enunciating in capitalised italics’ [review here] which I saw as ‘capitalist’ [even if that is the briefest of errors] and substituted that word within an otherwise same title for my found poem.
Not that I’m presenting that poem here. The focus on ‘italics’ reminded me I had written the above poem ransom recently having been introduced by a friend to the Ransom Note Fonts site here [so given as acknowledgement but also for anyone to visit and use].
Having recently posted a creative writing resource for this Year’s ‘Vision’ themed National Poetry Day using Kubla Khan, and yesterday – unintentionally connected – my Edwin Morgan inspired poem Clear Message, I was reminded of creative writing resources I prepared for NPD in 2016 and its theme ‘Messages’.
Revisiting that work I was reminded I obviously had quite an energetic response to the theme. As ever, the ideas are based around writing List Poems and I do recommend this approach when working with students.
These don’t need a national focus on a theme and I have re-written slightly if any would like to use them now. Help yourselves:
[Inspired by Edwin Morgan’s Message Clear]
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