Life in Colour - writing poems with Jessica Traynor

From the ‘wine-dark sea’ of Homer’s Odyssey to contemporary poets like Mary Ruefle, Ann Carson and Maggie Nelson, poets have used an obsession with colour to unlock visions of the world that are both intimate and politically charged. If, as Kassia St. Clair tells us ‘Colours should be understood as cultural creations’, what of our own culture and life experience can we bring to our poetry by approaching it through our own understandings of colour?