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Category: Interviews

Yuan Changming: How I Wrote ‘East vs West: A Synoptic Cultural Comparison’

Posted on May 22, 2024April 30, 2024

“As I see it, the form of a poem is always an integral part of its content”

Hassan A. Usman: How I Wrote ‘Displacement Ghazal’

Posted on May 15, 2024April 30, 2024

“I have always seen poetry as a form of resistance and an (urgent) response to every part of our daily lives”

Eve Elizabeth Moriarty: How I Wrote ‘Card Trick’

Posted on May 8, 2024April 30, 2024

“Sometimes if I’m being flippant I say basically my entire writing career is based on pointing out that some stuff is a bit like other stuff”

Laurie Bolger: How I Wrote ‘Bants’

Posted on May 1, 2024April 30, 2024

“[There] were scaffolders banging outside our window ‘talking loud’ shouting and swearing… I wrote this poem in my phone notes app whilst we listened to them and made ourselves a tea”

Josh Smyth: How I Wrote ‘Billboard’

Posted on April 24, 2024April 30, 2024

“During these visits, I am immersed in familiar company, and it isn’t until I have short moments away from family, in solitude, when I take stock of my surroundings and focus on the unfamiliarity of everything”

Deborah Finding: How I Wrote ‘valley burn’

Posted on April 17, 2024April 30, 2024

“I’m always thinking about who gets to speak and be listened to, and who gets silenced”

Lynne Hjelmgaard: How I Became a Poet

Posted on April 15, 2024April 8, 2024

“When I attempted to put my feelings on paper it became clear that it would be a long, slow process with hard work and determination at its core”

Stuart Pickford: How I Wrote ‘Backchat’

Posted on April 10, 2024April 30, 2024

“If you let your characters speak, you can give them enough rope to hang themselves: they reveal their own nature without the narrator having to comment; you’re showing and not telling”

Jefferson Holdridge: How I Wrote ‘Hands’

Posted on April 3, 2024April 30, 2024

“She noticed my predilection for rhyme and then warned that using it should sound ‘blindingly inevitable'”

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