To complement his travel poetry, award-winning poet Marc Nair recently started taking photographs and integrating them into his collections. Travel poetry is meant to capture the joy of exploration and inspire. Nair's book Spomenik, is a collection of poems and photos from a trip to the Balkans that share a glimpse of life across a multitude of cities, crossing terrains of history, war, culture and faith. Nair did not set out to make literal connections between his photos and poetry, but to invite the reader to make their own connections using all five senses. His goal was to replicate the feelings of travel, indirectly bringing readers on a journey to another place. Nair believes that understanding your perceived audience and the connection you are trying to make is essential in creating poetry that resonates with readers.
How do you add pictures when your poetry is mainly about emotion?
Hi Earl. Dr. Earl Edmonds Homeless Poetry Epic Poet & Governor Of IIA LLC. We make the relation between the Cucumber that's sour and a street being stinky as if the Cucumber was left out all day. Furthermore, we relate our seeing, hearing, smelling and touching between what the story is about and the photo of exact environments shown to make us feel the story raising higher interest as well as thought process. It's very engaging.