My poem, The Tulips On Ward 34, recently won the 2021 NZMSJ Creative Arts Competition. Read about the story behind the poem here.
Month: June 2022
Writing Odes in the 21st Century
If you are told to read or write an ode, chances are, you’ll think of an old, stuffy poem that’s probably not even in English. Or, you might think of Beethoven’s famous Ode To Joy, in which the music and the composer are far more famous than the poet who wrote the words, Friedrich Schiller. However, odes are so much more than this, and I would argue that the ode is a versatile poetic form that is perfectly suited to the 21st century poet.