Hello everyone and welcome back to Book Break! As you can probably tell
i am not Emma. My name is Joel and I run the BookTube channel fictionalfates,
and on my channel I do a lot of discussion about books, but also
I do a lot of talk about writing as well, through my writing vlogs. And Emma
has kindly asked me today to come onto the Book Break channel to talk about
writing. Writing is such an interesting craft, it's such a way
for you to express yourself, and express your emotions.
And I find that poetry is also such a great way to do that! And so today
we'll be working with How to Grow Your Own Poem by
Kate Clanchy in order to write a poem. And I just am obsessed with this
this book. Kate Clanchy has basically been working
to help educate people for the past 20 years
in order to teach them how to write more poetry confidently and effectively.
This book is amazing if you're a beginner looking to write poetry for the
first time, or like me you've written poetry before and you just want to
become more confident in your craft. And so today on the channel we'll be
going through one of the prompts specifically,
and I will be basically telling you how my poem went.
And so I was looking through this book trying to find the best
prompt for me, and I immediately went to the contents page
because that's what every person does, and
I saw one about a magical object. And I was like
huh. And as you can see on the page for How to Grow Your Own Poem,
there is Missing Object 1: Ode to a magical object.
As well as an example poem for you to read before
you write your own. And then on the next page
it says "your turn". And on here there are so
many prompts for you to follow in order for you to write your own poem.
Me last night being the eager beaver that I am,
I saw that and immediately got to writing, and I was just
really inspired. And I was thinking about a lot of the magical objects that I know
of. So many like Egyptian artefacts and
there's so many like different cool things, like magical wands
and staffs and swords. And me being a massive fan
of swords, I decided that I was going to write a poem about Excalibur,
the all-powerful sword that King Arthur uses after he pulled it out of the stone.
And so I kind of wanted to kind of twist the tale a bit and
talk about how Excalibur could have been used for evil
as well. I got to writing my poem last night, and I got to editing it this
morning, because part of the writing process is always
about writing and rewriting, making sure that you've
honed your words and done it carefully, and crafted it carefully,
and it's definitely something that you get used to a lot more
when you write more poems, and a lot more prose as well. And I definitely think
that poetry is something that is very
expressive, and is so free to do whatever you want.
Me being the basic person that I am, I decided to use
four stanzas of four lines with an ABCB rhyming pattern, and so basically the
second and the fourth line of every stanza,
every verse, will rhyme. And so I present to you:
Excalibur, by me.
The blade was tempered into a heavenly glow
The king commanded it hidden
vowed never to show
the blade would kill many
all across the realm
if it broke free from its chains
death would overwhelm
the blade sought its master
the young boy sensed
he could pull it out from its rock
and become the kingdom's prince
the blade lying waiting underneath a living lake
waiting for his return to sit on the throne he'd make
And so I had a lot of fun writing that. I think it was definitely something that
it kind of just got me into like the creative juices once again,
and just feeling kind of productive and powerful
writing this. And so amazing with all of like the different ways I could
craft my words, and looking up like what words rhyme with this word and
stuff. But poems don't have to rhyme! You can just do whatever you want with it.
And I definitely think that Kate Clanchy has so
many cool prompts and stuff in her book that it will definitely help you come up
with your own forms of poems as well. And with my poem, mine was
inspired by again the Excalibur myth and also how
we have that inevitable death of Arthur, and how one day he vows to come back
and build the kingdoms of Avalon once again. Tt was just a lot of fun.
And I think that it was something that I definitely want to do more of.
I definitely think it's going to be something that's going to be quite cool
to do more of in the future. I want to thank Emma so much for having
me come on to the Book Break channel. You can go check out how to grow your own
poems by Kate Clanchy, it's amazing, it's floppy, like we love floppy
books, and there's so much inspiration for you to
grab from this. And if you want to check me out as well
you can check out my YouTube channel fictionalfates. And I'm also on
bookstagram on the same handle. And so yeah
I guess that is everything for today's video. I had a lot of fun,
I hope you did too. Maybe you'll see me again soon who knows, but
yeah I guess for now, bye friends.