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Apr 19, 2021 · An interesting form of verbalizing graphic cues is actually “Photopoetry.” I became intrigued with this type of poetry after researching about ekphrastic poems and wondering: “If I can write poems for pieces of art—why not photographs, too?”
Will you experiment with innovative typographic design (perhaps inspired by some of the Surrealist photopoetry examples above) or do you prefer more conventional approach to the presentation of your poems i.e. poem and photograph on facing pages?
Regardless of what type of image you are using to inspire the poetry, you can make a number of questions in your mind, and this can be helpful for you to think through different options for creating your own poetry, and even helping you to make your own self-determined criteria.
Present your final image(s) alongside the poem stimulus in the form of a book spread. You can use the relevant image file of your poem from the gallery below (to retain its correct layout). Decide whether your picture should be on the left or the right, what size and where positioned on the page.
Jul 12, 2020 · Writer and artist S. J. Fowler describes the challenge of exploring photopoetry as follows: To begin, we must ask ourselves what these mediums actually are, at heart, and then what they can be together? Finally, what is the purpose of their combination? What can they do together?
Jun 21, 2018 · In conjunction, such visual and verbal images blend, clash, contradict, embolden, evoke, and resist each other, creating photopoetic images that seem, in Crawford and McBeath’s terms, to encourage the ‘obliquity’ and ‘serendipity’ of text and image.
