Erasure Poetry
Day 5: Erasure Poetry
Welsh translation: Cerddi dileu
“I’m Rachel and I run boom saloon, a global media movement to democratise creativity for good. Boom Saloon work in collaboration with STAND, a peer support group for people living with young onset dementia – that is people who are diagnosed with dementia under the age of 65 – and their families and friends in Fife, Scotland. Boom Saloon have been working with STAND since 2019 to support them tell the true story of those living with young onset dementia, in their own words .”
This prompt was greatly loved the dementia groups we have worked with previously – it removes the pressure of memory and having to imagine your own words whilst simultaneously sparking new ideas from what is presented. Any source material whatsoever can be used, from greetings cards to comic books to Farmfoods flyers! We ran an impromptu, communal Erasure poetry session at the Dementia Arts Festival in 2023 which was very popular and this prompt can easily be enjoyed by more than one person at once.
To find out more about boom saloon visit: https://64millionartists.com/boom-saloon
“Fi yw Rachel ac rwy’n rhedeg boom saloon, mudiad cyfryngau byd-eang i ddemocrateiddio creadigrwydd er budd da. Mae boom saloon yn gweithio mewn cydweithrediad â STAND, grŵp cymorth cyfoedion i bobl sy’n byw gyda dementia cychwyn cynnar – hynny yw pobl sy’n cael eu diagnosio â dementia o dan 65 oed – a’u teuluoedd a’u ffrindiau yn Fife, yr Alban. Mae boom saloon wedi bod yn gweithio gyda STAND ers 2019 i’w cefnogi i adrodd stori wir y rhai sy’n byw gyda dementia cychwyn cynnar, yn eu geiriau eu hunain.”
https://64millionartists.com/boom-saloon
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Website: boomsaloon.com
Do
Erasure poetry is created by blacking out words to form new sentences, poems and stories from what remains. It allows us to play with words without the pressure of having to think of them from scratch. Instead, we can enjoy restructuring and playing with words which already exist to tell our own stories.
Tear out a page from a newspaper, magazine or book. If you don’t have any to hand – you could print out a selection from the resources linked here, or a place of your choice. Use a marker pen to cross out the words surrounding those you wish to remain. It can be helpful to first underline the words you wish to remain, before then blacking out all of the others.
If you’d like, add in any additional words around those you’ve selected.
Gan ddefnyddio testun sy’n bodoli yn barod, byddwn yn chwarae efo geiriau i greu ein barddoniaeth ein hunain. Mae cerddi dileu yn cael eu creu trwy ddileu geiriau i greu brawddegau, cerddi neu straeon newydd o’r hyn sydd yn weddill. Mae’n gadael i ni chwarae â geiriau heb y pwysau o orfod meddwl amdanynt o’r newydd. Yn hytrach gallwn fwynhau ailstrwythuro a chwarae â geiriau sydd yn bodoli eisoes er mwyn dweud ein straeon ein hunain.
Rhwygwch dudalen o’r papur, y cylchgrawn neu’r llyfr. Defnyddiwch y pin ffelt i groesi allan y geiriau sydd o amgylch y rhai yr hoffech eu cadw. Os hoffech, ychwanegwch eiriau ychwanegol o amgylch y rhai sydd yn cael eu cadw. Ar ôl gorffen darllenwch y gerdd yr ydych chi wedi’i chreu trwy chwarae efo geiriau rhywun arall.
Gall fod yn ddefnyddiol tanlinellu’r geiriau rydych am eu cadw, cyn dileu’r geiriau eraill.
Think
Terms such as poetry and creative writing can feel incredibly daunting – they are filled with stanzas and haikus and villanelles, written by people such as Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Yeats. And yet… at their core, they are nothing more than the words we each use day in, day out. These three Word Play prompts encourage and guide you to think about the words that surround us each day and how we can play with them to discover that, in fact – we are all poets, even if we didn’t know it!
Mae termau megis barddoniaeth ac ysgrifennu creadigol yn gallu bod yn frawychus – yn llawn o englynion a chywyddau a chynganeddion, ac wedi’u hysgrifennu gan bobl fel Gerallt Lloyd Owen, Mererid Hopwood a Cynan. Ac eto… yn y bôn, tydyn nhw’n ddim byd ond y geiriau rydym yn eu defnyddio bob dydd. Mae’r tair her Chwarae efo Geiriau hyn yn eich annog a’ch arwain i feddwl am y geiriau sydd yn ein hamgylchynu bob dydd a sut y gallwn chwarae â hwy er mwyn darganfod ein bod i gyd, go iawn, yn feirdd o ryw fath!
Share
You can share today’s journey with creativity on social media by tagging us or using the hashtag #TheJanuaryChallenge Encourage your friends and family to join in to take the conversation further! Read our top tips for accessible sharing on social media.
Rhannwch eich campau creadigol gyda ni ar y cyfryngau cymdeithasol trwy ein tagio neu ddefnyddio’r hashnod #HerIonawr
Beth am annog ffrindiau a theulu i ymuno fel gall y sgwrs fynd ymhellach!
Darllenwch ein hawgrymiadau gwych er mwyn rhannu mewn modd hygyrch.
