“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
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Ilias Tsagas: How I Wrote ‘Language Matters’
“[When] I write poetry I always have an image in my mind. Even if the starting point is an emotion or a vague idea, I try to visualise it. Whether I include this initial trigger right away in the poem or I save it for later on is something I decide along the writing process”
Disease and Poetry
Rushika Wick describes a new anthology of writing on the theme of disease
Elvire Roberts and Rachel Goodman: How We Wrote ‘Methods of Thirteen and Female (iii)’
“The notion of sole authorship is inherently political; there is an accepted hierarchy to the question ‘who wrote it?’ and we challenge that by writing from the body, and from the lived space between us”
Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana: How I Wrote ‘The names of things’
“I guess I listen and steal from what is going on around me. Sometimes I hear something hilarious or outrageous and think that has to go in a poem! I want to record and share it”
JP Seabright: How I Wrote ‘Mamgu’
“I guess it was an attempt to convey on the page the way the mind and memory works combining the known past (my mother reciting the town name), the unknown past (how my grandmother died and why my mum never spoke of her) and the in media res present”