“[I]nstead of having two separate language versions of the poem, I ended up with one, which brings the languages together… This, I think, reflects how the brain of a bilingual/multilingual person works”
Author: Frances Turpin
Frances is Poetry Wales' Magazine Manager
Muskaan Razdan: How I Wrote ‘Duplex’
“I love how agile and stripped back it is as a form. It doesn’t allow you to dwell, chewing away unnecessary information and only leaving the reader with the heart of the idea”
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Poetry Wales Editor Zoë Brigley reflects on our Summer 2023 issue
Rachel Carney: How I Wrote ‘Unremarkable’
“The poem is an attempt to look back as well as forward, to acknowledge the creativity of women past, present and future”
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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”
Meeting Donald Hall
“Folded inside my copy of ‘Kicking the Leaves’ were two ruled pages of notes from a ring binder. At least now I can share some of the notes I scribbled at Donald Hall’s classes and from his writings”
Stuart McPherson: How I Wrote ‘In Time I’ll Fade Away’
“The more men that can look inside themselves and be comfortable with this the better. It enables us to be better humans, to take better care, both of ourselves and others”