“[As] poets we track and witness what is happening all around the world as pollution and extinction becomes not a prediction for the future, but the very place we live in”
Category: Poems
Alan Zhukovski: How I Wrote ‘THE REVOLUTION OF THE BROOKS’
“A poem can grow from a photograph (or several) like a crystal”
Gabriele Tinti: How I Wrote ‘Confessions’
“Every single word, every one of my lines, arises out of the quest for immortality, to conquer death”
Vanessa Napolitano: How I Wrote ‘The list’
“I often find when I write that there is a syllabic pattern emerging and it forms the basis for how I structure my poetry. It’s rarely deliberate in the first instance… but gives me a foundation to build the poem on.”
Radhika Swarup: How I Wrote ‘After Partition’
“The short story form of prose, I feel, attempts to bridge the chasm between [poetry and prose], and can provide intense insight into a moment.”
Karishma Sangtani: How I Wrote ‘Papeeta*’
“It took longer than I expected to adjust to thinking in Hindi, but I think that initial frustration allowed me to appreciate even more the enriching experience of perceiving the world in more than one language.”
Salma Arastu: How I Wrote ‘Allah O Akbar!’
“I was asked to create a painting which showed my reaction to the negativity and biased views about Muslims and extreme Islamophobia around the globe… While thinking in mind about the image the poem happened naturally.”
Abdulkareem Abdulkareem: How I Wrote ‘August Third’
“This poem is one of the few poems I knew I would write someday, I’ve wanted to write it even before I wrote it.”
‘After Sinnott’ by Robert Walton | From Poetry Wales 59.1
A long poem by Robert Walton, a section of which was published in Poetry Wales 59.1