Art’s reflection
Ekphrastic poems have a lasting appeal for both writers and readers, so when poet Corinne Lawrence of Bramhall, Cheshire was set the task to write one on a collaborative basis as part of a poetry course, she responded enthusiastically. Her piece was doubly inspired, being based on both a picture and another poem.
A fondness for pre-Raphaelite art led her to John William Waterhouse’s 1888 painting of , the first of three he painted of the same heroine, this one portraying her sitting up in the boat in which she will die drifting towards Camelot. The poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson held longstanding appeal. Corinne Lawrence says: ‘I have always loved , but like most
