“I started to think of all the ways we are locked in our own selves and how much we can ever really be understood by others.“ Jail Birds The crow keeps records of my movements,no need for locks, his beak is keen and fast. Everywhere the starlings gather, they chitchateverything, quick quick, I go back…
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Poetry Wales launches Stay-at-Home Special Issue
“One thing Poetry Wales can give is poems, and what we can all, at the moment, let in safely – through this screen here and into our hearts – are words.”
Free Access to Poetry Wales Digital Archive until April 23rd
Free resource for individuals, schools and universities, in light of recent library closures.
Virna Teixeira on how she writes a poem
“It is a kind of temporary obsession”
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.”
Eleanor Rees on how she writes a poem
Immanent living matter swirls through us all constantly, indeed this is what we are.
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.
Hanan Issa on how she writes a poem
“Poetry is the ultimate language ‘glow up’ and it is where I go to try and make sense of the storm” Dragon-taming? I started writing about dragons. Not the friendly creatures that let you ride on their backs. I wrote them as wild monsters with blood-stained teeth and fiery tempers. They definitely ate…
Andrew Spragg on how he writes a poem
“If you are not reading likely you are not writing.” Be wary of others’ methods or manifestos. Any sort of declaration. Two degrees, ten books and less sure than ever. It happens rarely every day. A few things resonate more than others – Tom Raworth’s Earn Your Milk (especially ‘Letters from Yaddo’ and ‘Letter to Martin Stannard’);…