Today I want you to take a poem you’ve already written, and redact, blackout or erase sections so that you create a new one. Try and create a shadow poem, that shows another meaning that’s still linked to the one before it. If you’re reading this on the website you can read two versions of the same poem below by me. They’re called Different Versions of the Same Thing and were published in the Courtauldian and the Ledbury Poetry Festival anthology many years ago.

Thanks for reading (and listening) and I hope you enjoy the magazine and our substack.

Max

p.s. I’ve just realised that was printed with a typo! There shouldn’t be ‘or’ before air in the redacted version!

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