‘Property poetry’? Real estate ads and literature have more in common than you might think
- Written by: Amelia Dale, Lecturer in English, Australian National University
A few years ago, I turned some real estate advertisements into poems by adding line breaks:
Fantastic views of the beach, ocean, headland and hinterland, you can see the Haven, you look straight up the green grass of the Skillion
I was interested, among other things, in asking what happens when we compare the language of real estate copy with more...



















