“My poems often float around in fragmented and incomplete drafts until that first, encapsulating line arrives on the page”
Author: Frances Turpin
Frances is Poetry Wales' Magazine Manager
Bethany Handley: How I Wrote ‘Cling Film’
“Poetry provides the space for readers to bear witness to ableism. This calling out of ableism in poetry can be unsettling for audiences if they recognise their own attitudes or behavior.”
Rakyah Assam: How I Wrote ‘The Scientist’
“I think the way that foreignness affects your relationship with the place that you’re in has a lot of parallels to the way that we operate in dreams in this way.”
Hussain Ahmed: How I Wrote ‘Yoruba Abecedarian I’
“In most cases, the poems are hardly fully made, they come in lines, phrases and flashes.”
Thomas Jackson: How I Wrote ‘marinara as the world ends’
“I didn’t write this with an agenda, but it pulled together several fractures in my nostalgia.”
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Des Mannay: How I Wrote ‘Hoxton girl in a “Last Poets” t-shirt’
“[Voices] were the first musical instruments, therefore all poetry has a music, and in some cases rhyme, repetition, and participation built into it…”
Shefali Banerji: How I Wrote ‘Fine Print’
“… I do love how language evolves within a certain context. How a word when taken from one language is reborn in another. How it switches, changes, subverts its past meaning in its new form.”
Matthew M. Cariello: How I Wrote ‘The Cowbird’
“The writing process involved the two competing impulses – invention and harmony.”