WestEustonPurplePoets
Writer-in-Residence: Kim Morrissey

Exploring Poetic Techniques:

Found Poetry
by Kim Morrissey

Found Poetry is poetry which has been created using another source (a piece of prose, a person speaking, a list, even another poem by someone else). The poet shapes this original material into a poem. This technique is useful for creating authentic voices, and when re-creating a character in history, because you are limited to another person's use of vocabulary, imagery and perceptions. This helps to create a distinct character for your speaker.  Carol Moon's "To Be On Time" is an example of using another person's voice to create a poem.  The original acedote was told to the Purple Poets by West Euston Time Bank member Cas, and Carol used words and phrases to create her own version of the story. 

For an example of re-creating a real; person in khistory using the found poetry technique, see the poem 'Louis Riel: Address to the Jury'  in Batoche (also found on the University of Toronto website). The original Address to the Jury was 45 minutes long; the poem is just over half a page, but the words in the poem in Batoche come from the trial transcript of Louis Riel's Address to the Jury.


OTHER TOPICS (POETIC TECHNIQUES)

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