Creative exercises:

• Write a description of a dream. Focus on describing

the images you remember within your subconscious
mind and the events as they occurred in the dream,
however illogical their sequence. Don’t try to interpret
the dream or analyse its symbology, just write down
what you remember.

Reshape your writing into a poem or prose poem,

drawing on the images and occurrences of your dream.

Or

• Write an Ekphrastic poem or passage of writing about

a surrealist work of art. An Ekphrastic poem is a vivid,
often dramatic, description of a visual work of art. You
can use the examples of surrealist art in the file attached
or look up your own image to write about.
 Remedios Varo Uranga, ‘Creación de las aves’, 1957.

Rene Magritte , ‘The Castle of the Pyrenees’, 1959

Salvidor Dali, ‘Sleep’, 1937

Dorothea Tanning, ‘Eine Kleine Nachtmusik’, 1943