So its a Poetry Etc special, is it?
Will Poetry Etc mind if I use it as a festival gimmick, getting people to
write them and hand them in for publication in a special issue of
broadsheet?
Thanks Andrew.
I know what you mean about writing them straight in the email - will do some
myself on Poetry Etc when I am out of this busy fortnight
cheers & thanks
Sally
Sally Evans
http://www.poetryscotland.co.uk
http://groups.msn.com/desktopsallye
http://www.myspace.com/poetsallyevans
----- Original Message -----
From: "andrew burke" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: Snap: Interview
> Sally, Sally, Sally - probably not 'serious' enough to Google, a Snap poem
> is an instant declaration in words of how the poet is or how the poet is
> seeing things at that particular moment. It started out years back when
> people on p'etc around the world had such different environments and
> wanted
> to place each other. 'Snap' as in 'snapshot' was the original meaning,
> including various sensory data like the weather, the colour of things, the
> impulse and perception of the poet.
>
> Methinks it has expanded since then and some of gathered throng publish
> poems outside this definition on a Wednesday simply because they have just
> written it. I myself tend to try to write an 'instant' poem straight down
> in
> the body of an email to the group. It helps kick in a little adrenalin,
> so -
> warts and all - my first draft sails out into cyberspace.
>
> Others may have a different take, but that's fundamentally the case of the
> Snap poem.
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On 06/03/2008, Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Could anyone give a definition of a Snap Poem, suitable for getting
>> people
>> to write Snap poems at an exhibition?
>> I've been looking on Google and not got very far...lots of examples
>> but...instructions?
>> thanks SallyE
>> Sally Evans
>> http://www.poetryscotland.co.uk
>> http://groups.msn.com/desktopsallye
>> http://www.myspace.com/poetsallyevans
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/
>
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