What poets changed the way you thought about writing?
Very early it was the Beat writers. To write freely, that appealed to me. YB Yeat’s poem When You are Old. John Donne, Gerard Manley Hopkins, the Romantics. I went to see John Keat’s death mask in Rome, the room he died in. That was an arresting experience. So a lot of male writers in my early years because I studied poetry in university and university classes tend to sway male. But also I loved Sylvia Plath too. As I’ve gotten older and been exploring it’s been Anne Carson, Eileen Myles, Ariana Reines, Ashley Obscura. A lot of women. And Bill Bissett too, Bill is one of the best poets of the last 100 years, in my opinion.
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