The Guardian has an interesting theme for their poetry workshop this month (taught by poet Fiona Sampson): putting sounds in poems.
Write and submit a poem, and you could be featured in the follow-up article and receive in-depth feedback from a professional poet.
We take it for granted that poetry and sound are intimately related. After all, the idea of the lyric is both musical and has to do with a peculiarly poetic “feel” or sensibility. And if the term comes from rhetoric: well, that’s an approach to writing which identifies thoughts with their forms; the sound with its fury – or nostalgia, or wit, or passion. All poetics concern themselves, to a large extent, with the organisation of sound; in rhyme, metre, assonance and so on. But making sound isn’t the same as listening – as anyone who’s ever been in an argument knows. Perhaps because I used to be a musician, this month’s workshop pays attention to the sounds around us.
Link to the Guardian article for instructions.