Return To Form:
Season 2
We’re back with another season of Return To Form!
With the financial support provided by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland we’re bringing you 16 poets, tackling 8 different forms! This season's lineup is made up of spoken word artists from across the UK with some unique pairings and a whole heap of poetic talent. We can’t wait to see what they create.
These poems will be brought to life visually by our amazing cinematography and editing team. Plus, each set of poems will be accompanied by a workshop video facilitated by Dr Katie Ailes guiding you through how to write in that specific form. She’ll also be bringing you 4 Form Fundamentals workshops going over all the basics.
All of this will be released for free through our YouTube channel.
Contrapuntal is a form of poetry made up of multiple sections that you can read in multiple ways.
Thosethat know Harry Baker’s work will understand why he was the perfect choice for this challenge!
Palindrome Poetry. Also Known as Mirrored Poetry. A palindrome, by definition, is a word, phrase, verse, sentence, or even poem that reads the same forward or backward.
We tasked Jasmine Gardosi and Robin Lamboll with the immense challenge of creating unique palindrome poems.
The villanelle is a highly structured form of poetry consisting of tercets with a concluding quatrain, two refrains, and a tight rhyme scheme.
AR Crow and Nadine Aisha Jassat were challenged to write brand new Villanelles from the prompt “the new normal.”
We asked Colin Bramwell and Joelle Taylor to write poems in Terza Rima with the prompt of 'Borders'.
This Italian form consists of tercets and interwoven rhymes.
Found Poetry is a fantastic form of in which you create a poem by cutting up, remixing, or otherwise transforming an existing piece of text.
We challenged Tyrone and Sarah each to make Found Poems using episode titles from a TV show! With the flexibility to duplicate titles, cut them up, and all the rest we're delighted with the pieces they came up with.
Return To Form:
Season 1
Back at the start of lockdown, we piloted two episodes of a new poetry film concept that we wanted to experiment with. Since then we’ve been working to ensure that we could push the creative scope of the project and include some of our favourite spoken word poets in a full version of the series.
Now with the financial support provided by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland we get to do exactly that with: Loud Poets: Return To Form
We’re pairing up ten of our favourite spoken word artists and challenging each pair to create separate, brand new work in the same poetic form inspired by the same prompt.
These poems will be brought to life visually by our amazing cinematography and editing team. Plus, each set of poems will be accompanied by a workshop video facilitated by Dr Katie Ailes guiding you through how to write in this form. All of this will be released for free through our YouTube channel.
In univocal poetry, the poet chooses a single vowel then can only use words with that vowel throughout the entire piece. This is one of the trickiest poetic styles out there! Fortunately, we have challenged two incredible poets.
We’re so excited to see what Jo Gilbert and Courtney Stoddart do with their univocals in ‘E’
The golden shovel is a poetic form invented in 2017 by Terrance Hayes. It uses lines from an existing poem as its source material: each line of the new poem must use a word from the existing poem in sequential order.
We are very excited to see the golden shovels Tawona Sithole and Rachel Amey create based on Jackie Kay’s poem “In my country.”
Concrete poetry, also known as visual poetry, is essentially poetry which is shaped in a certain way which adds to its meaning.
Stuart Kenny and Georgia Bartlett-McNeil are creating brand new concrete poems for us from the prompt ‘home’!
The Shakespearean sonnet is a classic poetic form popularised by - you guessed it - the Bard himself. While relatively short at only fourteen lines, sonnets present major challenges for poets, who need to consider the length, meter, rhyming structure, and more when composing in this form.
We’re delighted to have Hannah Lavery and Callum O’Dwyer are tackling this challenge
The sestina may be one of the most interesting and trickiest poetic forms to master. It’s a French form consisting of 39 lines with repeating end line words: the line end words of the first stanza are repeated as the line end words for the next five stanzas in a different order, according to a set structure.
We’ve recruited Gray Crosbie & Paul Case to compose sestinas and challenged them to use some of the same end words.