Game 1: Grab a book you love and choose any old paragraph from one of the first pages.

Game 2: Reformat the paragraph so it’s a poem made of 10-syllable long lines.

Game 3: Now delete every other line.

Game 4: Fill in the gaps with your own 10 syllables to make it a rhyming couplet poem.
(Credit the author if you share the poem.)

Game 1: Write down the first word that pops into your head.

Game 2: Write down the following: 3 words that rhyme with the original word, 2 synonyms of the original word and 1 opposite of the original word.

Game 3: Take 7 minutes to write a poem in any style you like, but make sure you use all 7 words you’ve written at some point.

Game 1: Take a minute to think of a celebrity you like.

Game 2: Get into a blazing row with them for 4 minutes. Consider: What would it be about? What would you say? How far would you go? Would you get personal?

Game 3: Spend 5 minutes trying to make up with them in a poem.

Game 1: Listen to the instrumental piece
Tall Tales by Human Pyramids.

Game 2: Listen to it 3 more times on repeat and see if any lyrics or a poem come to mind.

Game 1: Imagine you’ve met your doppelgänger – someone who looks exactly like you.

Game 2: Take 3 minutes to scribble down all the questions you would ask them.

Game 3: You are now the doppelgänger! Take 7 minutes to answer the questions the other you wrote in a 10 line (or more) poem.

Game 1: Spend 2 minutes coming up with fake pub names (or cafes). List as many as you can.

Game 2: Pick the one you like the most.

Game 3: For 8 minutes, imagine you’re sitting in that pub or cafe. Write a poem with, as poet Tim Clare would say, “crunchy specificity”. Describe the place with great detail. What’s happening there? Who’s having a drink? Is anyone eating? Etc.
Carl Burkitt

Game 1: Take a minute to find an inanimate object in your house.

Game 2: Spend 2 minutes looking at it and listing things you both like and hate about it.

Game 3: Write a love letter (or hate mail) to that object for 7 minutes.

Game 1: Take a minute to think of the dream job you wanted as a kid.

Game 2: Imagine you have that job. Take 4 minutes to write a list of anything involved with that job. Consider: Clothes, things you’d say, people you’d meet, what would you have for lunch, do you enjoy the job, etc etc.

Game 3: Pop the job title at the top of a page and spend 5 minutes on a poem about a day in your new life. Aim for 10 lines (of length).