I posted this extract
below, quite recently, on the Via Negativa site (this site deals with
posts about how to write and format poetry on your website):
http://www.vianegativa.us/2010/06/how-to-format-poetry-on-the-web-an-incomplete-guide/#comment-50607
As an html total beginner I got a WordPress expert to
help me write multi-voice in up to six columns (in my website). However, when I
tried to write very small text to allow me to put text into these narrow
columns then it did not work in WordPress. I tried the poems that worked in
Microsoft Expressions Web 4 but none worked in WordPress. Another WordPress
expert kindly gave me some code but nothing seemed to work on WordPress. I
presume the WordPress text editor alters the CSS or html? Anyway, after two
weeks of trying (CSS and html) I gave up and have added a new multi-voice site
created on Blogger where the small text columns (using the additional WordPress
coding) work fine: multi-voicepoetry.blogspot.com
Ashby
Ashby
My multi-voice poem Ripples has just been
printed as a foldout in the very fine new poetry magazine, Raum. The
paper and the design are First Class. Worth looking at. Here is their website:
My multi-voice
poem Many Different Animals is due to be used in the Wild Issue
of DUPE magazine. Their website is: http://wearedupe.tumblr.com/About
Please Share my
own multi-voice site if you think it any good. I am grateful to the many
websites that have already mentioned my multi-voice poetry website. Thanks to
them. They are:
A pro-vegetarian
WordPress site: https://bo.wordpress.com/tag/vegetarianism/
Website called, Year of Lamb.
A site dealing
with the use of poetry in Education:
Facing Canada website. Article entitled: Finding your
Voice: using slam poetry to explore human rights. I am in as a comment.
Canadian
Lawyer website, Article
on The poetry of human rights. In as a comment.
www.canadianlawyermag.com/992/The-poetry-of-human-rights.html
Tweetspeak
website, article called:
The unofficially official list of top poetry websites. In as a comment
http://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/2012/02/29/the-unofficially-official-list-of-top-poetry-sites/
If you like any of the multi-voice
poems that I write or that Chromatic Voices 2 perform, then please try and
write a two or three part multi-voice poem yourself. Or with friends rehearse
and perform one of the poems on my website. I genuinely would like to see new
MV poetry groups springing up around the World. Multi-voice is a technique that
allows subtlety and complexity. It can be used in many different ways. Next
time you are inspired to write a poem, try imagining a second or third voice
and how it would take part in the poem. By take part I mean how it would be
useful in terms of meaning and action. And how it would interact in terms of
the voices acting for or against each other.
Consider how you would blend the
voices, the actions, the meaning, and the emotions that make up this “theatrical”
poem.
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