The Cambridge introduction to creative writing



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Morley, David - The Cambridge introduction to creative writing (2011) - libgen.li
Harry G. Broadman - Africa\'s Silk Road China and India\'s New Economic Frontier (2007, World Bank Publications) - libgen.li
Writing Game
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R IT ING ASAP U BL I CART The task is for everyone in your group to create a short poem, the placing of which does not require the page at all, and the composition requires some other vehicle for its reading. You may wish to work in small groups (for reassurance).
This might involve using any, and more, of the following:


Performing writing
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Write a colossal poem on the sand of a beach, or in snow in a park.
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Use the windows of a large building as spaces for individual letters or words.
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Broadcast poetry through your local radio or cable TV station.
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Publish a fake poetical manifesto during an election and post it around your city.
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Graffiti a poem on walls or sidewalks, using chalk (hose it off) or packed snow
(allow to melt).
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Bake a cake on which creative text is the icing, and hand it out.
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Write a removable tattoo poem on yourself or others.
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Arrange for the crowd at a sports event to holdup the letters of your poem in rows and columns.
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Photograph, and then make a montage of, public signage, such as street and hazard signs.
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Use quantities of naturally occurring objects to form words, such as pebbles,
twigs, ice or grasses.
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Do the same using unnatural objects such as the garbage on a street (recycle this afterwards).
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Project slides or overhead projections of poems onto the walls in your city or campus.
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Bury plant-bulbs in the form of letters and words of a poem, so that they grow in an unusual place next spring.
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Arrange fora one-line poem to be skywritten.
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Make a poem from the phrases of interviewed people you meet, taking one line from each passer-by.
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I M Although entertaining, these games widen your writing’s franchise and audience. There are obvious messages in some of these techniques regarding ecology and conservation. These messages are carried subliminally by the processor made explicit in their wording. Projects such as this are very open to civic and private sponsorship should you wish to make public and conceptual art part of your working life as a writer.

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