Chap Book and Anthology

At the request of several participants we are constructing a chapbook of poems written during WoPoWriMo for those who took part. The e-book will be only be sent to [...]

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Web-Badge

For all those who have had a victorious WoPoWriMo – here is your very own Inspiration Monster web-badge.

Just save it too your own computer and then place it where ever [...]

About WoPo

Pledge Ticking

For some reason the Pledge page has disappeared so until our tech support can sort it out here is the link.

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The End, The Victory – A beginning

You’ve made it to the end of WoPoWriMo! Well done! Fantastic! And as for those who didn’t hit the 28 poems? Well, you still probably got a lot more down [...]

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Day Twenty-Eight – Solitary Reflections

photo by Ella Gale loaned to WoPoWriMo in good faith so please don’t nick but go and talk to her!

This picture is beautiful, elegant and entrancing – look at the [...]

Exercises

Day Twenty-Seven – Beginnings

Beginnings can be special and traumatic times, they can be gentle or violent and sometimes both. Think about beginnings, such as the birth of you or your child or [...]

Guest Bloggers

Visual Poetry

Image by [Peter Ciccariello’s](http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/) “Credible report III”

Visual Poetry

Visual poetry (also called VisPo and concrete poetry) is poetry in which the visual element is as important—or sometimes more important—than [...]

Exercises

Day Twenty-Six – Lemons

As you have probably gathered from some of the other exercises, the senses are very useful for creating strong imagery.

First find a lemon, then on the top of separate pages [...]

Exercises

Day Twenty-Five – Texture

Scour your house and find five objects with different textures on them, then set these up in your preferred writing area.

Now examine them, touch them, and if it is safe [...]

Guest Bloggers

Silent Voice – Mental Health and Creativity

There are many advantages to expressing yourself creatively. Have you ever wondered why for example poetry and art is so expressive, why it brings about such strong feelings in the [...]