Hattie Butterworth explores the relationship between poetry and music in her latest blog entry.

Responding to music with words is such a wonderful way of capturing the moment and transmuting one experience into another.

During the summer the past few years in London, I have attended many BBC Proms concerts at the Royal Albert Hall. I usually choose to prom in the gallery at the top of the hall as the mood is often much more relaxed. It was here that I first discovered writing poetry as a method of listening.

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