Here is the 2019 FWS Patchwork Poem, created by Andy Jackson, our 2017 Makar, from lines in poems sent in by members. You can download a copy here: Patchwork Poem (FWS) 2019 – Truth
Here is the 2019 FWS Patchwork Poem, created by Andy Jackson, our 2017 Makar, from lines in poems sent in by members. You can download a copy here: Patchwork Poem (FWS) 2019 – Truth
After the success of our past Patchwork Poems and also to mark National Poetry Day 2019 (celebrated on Thursday 3rd October), the Federation of Writers Scotland would like to invite members to contribute to a Patchwork Poem on this year’s NPD theme of ‘Truth’. You must be a FWS member to contribute – not just a Facebook friend.
A Patchwork Poem is assembled from fragments of poetry from many contributors, and we’re asking Federation members to supply the fragments for our former Federation Makar Andy Jackson to edit into a poem. Members can supply single lines, short poems or extracts from whole poems on the theme of TRUTH, and Andy will select pertinent lines from submitted work and arrange them into a coherent new poem. The resulting poem will be published on the Federation website on National Poetry Day.
To give you some idea what the results might look like, see here for the 2017 FWS Patchwork poem.
Here is the 2018 FWS Patchwork Poem, created by Andy Jackson, our 2017 Makar, from lines in poems sent in by members. You can download a copy here: PatchworkPoem2018Change
After the success of our 2017 Patchwork Poem and also to mark National Poetry Day 2018 (celebrated on Thursday 4th October), the Federation of Writers Scotland would like to invite members to contribute to a Patchwork Poem on this year’s NPD theme of ‘Change’. A Patchwork Poem is assembled from fragments of poetry from many contributors, and we’re asking Federation members to supply the fragments for last year’s Federation Makar Andy Jackson to edit into a poem. Members can supply single lines, short poems or extracts from whole poems on the theme of Change, and Andy will select pertinent lines from submitted work and arrange them into a coherent new poem. The resulting poem will be published on the Federation website on National Poetry Day.
To give you some idea what the results might look like, see here for last year’s FWS Patchwork poem.
The 2017 FWS Makar, Andy Jackson, has composed this Patchwork Poem for National Poetry Day, on its theme of Freedom and using a line from each of the contributing FWS members listed below.
Read and Enjoy! The pdf version can be downloaded at Patchwork Poem 2017 Final version A3