Reflections at 60 | Memories of the Eighties
Cary Archard, Editor of Poetry Wales 1980-86, reflects on a special issue featuring Lynette Roberts
Cary Archard, Editor of Poetry Wales 1980-86, reflects on a special issue featuring Lynette Roberts
“To me, place is about the relationship of distance-to-closeness. How connected someone feels to their national identity can be just as important as how direct or indirect a speaker is in a poem, or how straightforward or mysterious an image is.”
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“The Iowa River was right there before me. Like all rivers it has a history. It was no leap to think about the way we treat performers and natural resources.”
“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.”
“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.”