When I take my place in front of my laptop at four in the morning (disgusting hour of the day if it’s for work, yet a sublime hour for languishing in that haze of soporific half-dreaming), I rarely arrive with a solid plan.
Tag: interview with author
Matthew Francis on how he writes a poem
“I had a sudden fantasy that the man and the bookshop only existed on Tuesday afternoons, that place and time had merged into one, and everyone else I passed on that brief walk to the leisure centre seemed to me part of that imaginary Tuesday world.”
Maria Jastrzebska on the poems that inspire her
“As you see, back then it was such a man’s world. Thank heavens for finding Sylvia Plath, whom I read over and over. Things only got more complicated when I began coming out.”
Dai George on how he writes a poem
“[W}e’re long past the point where a straight white male poet can be swaggering or ‘unreliable’ with impunity”
Sascha A. Akhtar on how she writes a poem
Approach it as art. Paint it. Film it. What is trying to come out of you? Seek the form it requires. You can transform the space as you like. The words will transform you.