Colouring in
Use your entire poetic palette to give your entry to WM’s colour-themed poetry competition the best chance, urges judge Alison Chisholm
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Submit poems up to 40 lines. Prizes are £100 and £50. See p95 for entry details.
If you are lucky enough to have reasonable eyesight, close your eyes for a moment and imagine opening them to a world without colour.
What would blue mean to you if you’d never seen the sky? How could you understand the colour of a loved one’s eyes, the exuberant yellowness of an egg yolk, the green challenge of a football pitch?
The next Writing Magazine poetry competition will be a celebration of colour, an examination of the lack of it, or an exploration into a surreal world of topsy-turvy colours. The only limit to the range of your writing is the boundary of your imagination.