Saturday 22 February 2020

Terese Mason Pierre : part two

How do you know when a poem is finished?

I know when a first draft of a poem is finished when I run out of creative steam. I start with a bright idea, and a momentum that carries me forward until it can’t anymore. That first draft can take up to thirty minutes. I set that draft aside for a few days, then return to it to edit it some more. The poem is done, completely, when I’ve manipulated it all I wanted, and I can’t see any other way to make it clearer.

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