Ok so have been having a think about how I can make my assignment piece a little more 'experimental' than just creative writing but just wanted to know your thoughts etc.
I don't know if you guys saw the Jeremy Kyle poem that I wrote but for gluttony I was thinking about doing something similar. I'm planning to go and sit in Mcdonald's in Westquay for an hour at some point next week and literally write down what people are saying at the till. I.e. their orders, questions asked etc using this 'transcript', create some sort of poem. Do you think this is experimental or just a bit stalkerish??
Also thank you for your sentences on pride. I've sent an email round to friends, colleagues etc asking them to complete the sentence too but I think that when I have enough, I'm going to try that exercise where you cut sentences in half and reconstruct them...do you see what I mean?? So I'll take the first half of one sentence and add it to the second half of another??
I'm quite a fan of absurdist poetry and so for greed i think I'm going to try a poem in the style of Jacques Prevert...he's a french poet who doesn't use any punctuation in his work.
I'm not going to list lots and lots for you to comment on but what do you guys think of this so far??
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I hadn't considered Prevert to be adsurdist, but maybe we can discuss this in the seminar. Good ideas though. I like transcripts of real conversations. It's experimental but make sure you ground it in a movement like surrealism or the absurdists. The latter were concerned with the meaningless of existence. Is this what you're interested in? Sounds gloomy so I guess you're not.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it sounds stalkerish to go and sit and listen to people in McDonalds! I think that's a good idea...although you could maybe go to a few other places and see people's behaviour. Maybe an all you can eat buffet would be a good one!
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of Jacques Prevert but I'd be interested to look into it a bit more! :-)