Friday, 11 December 2020

Jake Byrne : coda

How does a poem begin?

Sometimes with a title, although those tend to take years to complete. Still trying to find poems for some really fun titles, years later, yet I won’t give up on them.

Some are stitched together from errant lines in a dozen crummy freewrites.

Some – these are the rarest, one in every three hundred times, and almost never when I’m at my desk – some come out fully formed and ready to go. Those are the ones I send to contests.

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