It’s a pleasure to welcome a poet who has made a couple of contributions to the NaPoWriMo podcast back for a full episode. Peter Wallis is an award winning poet from Norwich, who is about to publish his debut collection Half Other about his twin brother.
He talks about how he has been inspired by the poet Matthew Welton to use repetition in his poems, a fitting technique for exploration the repetition and variation between him and his brother. He reads a couple of poems from the collection and challenges us to play with repetition too.
Repetition
There are many ways to use repetition in poetry but a simple way to start is to list as many variations on a phrase as possible for example: “Half past four in the morning indeed. I’ll give you half past four in the morning.”
If nothing else this is a great way to generate ideas and you will hopefully find something you can shape into a poem. Peter recommends having a specific feeling or idea as you write which can then come through in the poem. You can hear further explanation of this technique and examples on the podcast.
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You can find out more about Peter Wallis’s forthcoming collection and read some poems here.
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