It consists of a sequence of poems which are normally written by a group of people, often when they are in one place together, over a day.
I will be running a renga at College Lake on June 18th, almost midsummer.
Yesterday I was playing with the idea of making a renga that contains both writing and photos.
Here are some of my first attempts with this version of renga that is just written by one person, and includes photos.
It's just a start.
The thing to enjoy with renga, both as a participant and a reader, is the relationships between the verses - or in this case the relationship between the photo and next verse, then that verse and the next photo.
The idea is that they should link in some way, but not all be part of the same story - so there also needs to be a shift between verses.
"Link" and "shift" are key ideas in renga. See if you can see the linking and shifting below.
We Are Here
PhotoRenga One Draft One - Beginnings
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by the water, bins filled with a weekend of picnics -
bottles, crusts, napkins, blue carrier bags
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today’s highlights:
lapwing chicks on the marsh
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I come to lose myself
in the seamless, HD, 3Dness of here
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tight May blossom buds
soon to let out their sweet scent of piss and pepper
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