What is Poetic Prose?

A masterclass from Elif Shafak

Kathy Hopewell
The Writing Cooperative
6 min readApr 22, 2022

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Sometimes writing works on us at an almost unconscious level: it moves us but we don’t know why.

This kind of writing is often called poetic prose. It is the perfect combination of rhythm and sense imagery in such writing that sends it straight to the heart.

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I’m a novelist and first-time indie author who loves freewriting, Elbow and Virginia Woolf. I write about women surrealists at https://thefurcup.substack.com