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Category: Interviews

Julia Forster: How I Wrote ‘Drawing, 1988’

Posted on April 16, 2025April 9, 2025

“Perhaps that’s what this poem is about: the many-dimensional reality in which we live as adults as opposed to the constraints of a childhood in which we are operating on different brain wave lengths.”

A.M. Juster: How I Translate a Poem

Posted on April 2, 2025March 31, 2025

“I am a traditionalist and work hard to keep the meaning very close to the original while also echoing the sounds and rhythms of the original.”

Adele Evershed: How I Wrote ‘Dirty Laundry’

Posted on March 19, 2025February 26, 2025

“‘Dirty Laundry’ deals with nostalgia, memory, and the passage of time, but if I were to sum it up in one word, I’d say – hiraeth, a word any Welsh expat knows well.”

Sean Swallow: How I Wrote ‘Rereading Blackberrying in Uwchmynydd’

Posted on March 5, 2025February 26, 2025

“Even out there at the tip of the Llyn peninsula, with Bardsey Sound beneath me, the bleakness of our environmental predicament felt inescapable. I envied [Plath] not writing under that weight.”

Content warning: mention of suicide

Jane Campbell: How I Wrote ‘Campfire’

Posted on February 19, 2025January 21, 2025

“My hope for this poem is that it reminds dykes of our unity when so much of the world tries to undermine us. Campfires give us a way of celebrating the rare joy of being in a majority.”

Forester McClatchey: How I Wrote ‘Elephant in Hannibal’s Army’

Posted on February 5, 2025February 18, 2025

“Perhaps the best one can hope to do when writing in the voice of an animal is urgently point to one’s own ignorance.”

Content warning: animal cruelty, war

Betty Doyle: How I Wrote ‘Announcements’

Posted on January 22, 2025January 21, 2025

“It raced through my mind, unlocking all the bars, yelling ‘no compromise – you must and can and will write’”

Content warning: pregnancy loss, childlessness

Peter E Murphy: How I Wrote ‘Bad History’

Posted on November 6, 2024January 21, 2025

“I have a hiraeth for Wales which, cliché alert! nourishes my soul and gets my muse all excited.”

Content warning: mentions of suicide and addiction.

B. Anne Adriaens: How I Wrote ‘The sea giveth and the sea taketh away’

Posted on October 2, 2024October 9, 2024

“Writing long-hand in a notebook feels like a safe space, if only because I’m usually the only person who can read my messy handwriting!”

Content warning: mentions of drowning, death of a child

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