Back at the beginning of the year we created a Pinterest board to help collect images and concepts we thought might help the aspiring poet – why not have a go at this yourself. The site is free and tries it’s best with copy right too 🙂

Set yourself up a board where you can collect images from within pinterest, or from the web or even add your own if you so wish!

Then grab your timer and write about each picture for 5 minutes.

Or alternatively create a mood board, where you collect images that are “dark” or “joyfull” or show the wonders of nature or the moon etc… Spend half an hour at a time scouring the sight for images for your mood board. Then leave it for a while and come back to the board, drink in the images and listen to some similarly mood orientated music and then begin to write.

A good example of a mood board is Deep Ice which was set up with novel writing in mind but works well for poetics.