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Anthony Wade: How I Wrote ‘A Lost Voice’

“It is in the editing-amending-polishing phases of the original thought-story-memory that I listen to the rhythms of the language, to the unfolding of the scenes, if more than one, and sense when there is what I think of as a key change, almost as though it is music”

Meredi Ortega: How I Wrote ‘Solo’

“I like to gather together all manner of things to see me through the making of a poem… I don’t know what to expect so I take everything, just in case.”