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Author: Frances Turpin

Frances is Poetry Wales' Magazine Manager

Jeff William Acosta: How I Wrote ‘of thee I sing’

Posted on March 8, 2023April 30, 2024

“They came in like flashes, in fragments—a tapestry of thoughts. Writing poetry in a language that is not native to me, in a sense makes me think of ways or approach the English language in a different angle.”

Paul Deaton: How I Wrote ‘Harvest’

Posted on March 1, 2023April 30, 2024

“I find that some poems I write, luckily, just seem to happen – I might get a first line, like a fish biting, and then, if I have time, I let the poem unfold itself, and see where that line takes me”

Suman Gujral: How I Wrote ‘Lion’ | Video Interview

Posted on February 22, 2023April 30, 2024

“One piece of advice is… to not worry about whether anyone’s going to see the work; to make, to immerse yourself in your work and enjoy it. And don’t make it for anything in particular, but just make it for the sake of making, because [the] kind of creativity where you don’t kind of shoebox yourself into thinking we have to be one thing or another, that’s very liberating.”

Aaron Kent: How I Wrote ‘Between all of us like a Wavy Halo Form’

Posted on February 15, 2023April 30, 2024

“After the brain haemorrhage I was put on very heavy sleeping tablets, and when they kicked in I began to write poetry, then I’d wake and find streams of subconscious thoughts, odd typos, and nonsense words which I’d later edit into a poem while conscious.”

Adam Cairns: How I Wrote ‘Mum Dancing’

Posted on February 1, 2023April 30, 2024

“The sonnet seems like a safe room to me. It has known dimensions, the four walls of its rhymes and the turn.”

After Dickinson and Disability | Watch the Panel

Posted on January 30, 2023January 30, 2023

From the 2022 Tell It Slant Festival

Camille Francois: How I Wrote ‘Let us go down, and there confound’

Posted on January 25, 2023April 30, 2024

“I like to think of poems as machines crafted to destroy what we know, in order to access forms of wisdom or something archaic about our nature which we might not otherwise have consciously encountered.”

Mat Riches: How I Wrote ‘Tomato Plants’

Posted on January 18, 2023April 30, 2024

“I’d love to say that was a deliberate choice, that it was a way of showing the protagonist is boxed in like the tomatoes, or like the holes you cut into a tomato growbag, but I’d be lying.”

Megan J Arlett: How I Wrote ‘Fresh Meat’

Posted on January 11, 2023April 30, 2024

“My poems often float around in fragmented and incomplete drafts until that first, encapsulating line arrives on the page”

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