Saturday 25 January 2020

Kitty Coles : part three

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? 

I find it almost impossible to write to order or from prompts. It reminds me of school, where we were required to produce poems on demand, and makes my brain shut down. For me, a poem arrives either pretty much fully formed or not at all. I sometimes encounter subject matter that I think could make for an interesting poem but if that poem doesn’t then spontaneously emerge in my head – or at least the first few lines, from which the rest can flow -  I haven’t learnt any way of forcing it.

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