“I wasn’t prepared for all the time that writing involves […] and the obsession that has risen within me. But I think it was what I was made to do.” I’m often identified as a Welsh poet (something which I’m always slow to contradict) but as usual, the truth is more complicated than that. With…
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Rob Miles: How I write a poem
There is no muse, but there is fertile mush. Everyone bar no one is at least a first stage poet, that is, someone who ‘hears’ things: other’s words; or their own, internally;
Matthew Haigh: How I write a poem
I would say that humour and gorgeousness are key ingredients to many of my poems – there’s a kind of paradise in daydreaming
Chloe Garner on how she writes a poem
“I hurry the final stretch to get the poem on paper. Repeating it over and over, scared I will forget.”
Owen Lewis on how he writes a poem
“I see and hear things at this hour that might be lost later in the day when texts and emails and schedules and all the to-do’s crowd in.”
Prue Chamberlayne on how she writes a poem
“Write freely and richly, notice the rhythm and the images that float around it, and walk with these first beginnings, since pace helps the poem to find itself and its own way.”