Look through the magazines or old catalogs you have laying around the house – newspapers, old travel guides, anything that you don’t mind destroying but has pretty pictures in!

Now leaf through them and pick out the images that resonate with you – if none do just pick ones you like the look of! Now cut them out and stick them onto a piece of card or paper. This is an image collage and a source of inspiration.

Think about how you’ve laid out your pictures – are they overlapping – did you mean to do that – does it set up a nice relationship between the two?

Now start writing.

If you are neat and want to think about the composition more then these collages can easily be turned into Visual Poems (VisPo).