Jane Monach – our poet on Day 682 of the daily poems – has devised a clever means of deriving a Found Poem from a new history of the world. New histories  A collage from Peter Frankopan’s ‘The Silk Roads – A New History of the World’ (top line from page 10 and every 50… Continue reading

Our poet Simon Haines makes a macabre find on the Woodland Trust website.  Dead Man’s Fingers reach for the sky on this Day 681 of the daily poems. Here is his found poem, complete with scary photo!  Dead Man’s FingersXylaria polymorpha Swollen blackened fingersreaching for the skyspooky as if someoneburied beneath the woodland is trying to… Continue reading

Yesterday’s Found Poem was brief and to the point.  Today, Day 680 of the daily poems, we have something entirely different.  A prose text has been taken from Cormac McCarthy’s ‘Blood Meridian’ which in the reading sounds like poetry, with its heightened imagery and the exuberance of its vocabulary.  To render it as a found… Continue reading

Here is a Found Poem, blissfully short and succinct, its text neatly composed in five brief lines.  Our poet Alwyn Marriage came across it in The Guardian a while back.  Today is Day 679 of the daily poems. Missed it As usualI wasn’t paying attentionon the second of November –the day the Chatterley juryreached its… Continue reading

Today, on Day 678 of the daily poems, our poet Colin Hopkirk proffers a pub-observed poem – a Found Poem in which the poet has constructed, from overheard words, a coherent piece of free verse. Originally they came from India and so did a lot of the words  all the way from from Indiaa lot of… Continue reading