‘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...

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