What do you find most difficult about writing poetry?
It tends to vary from piece to piece that really if I am honest whether it is the title or how I finish off the piece.
My next full length book Changing carriages at Birmingham New Street is a big case in point here. In contrast to my second and third books The End of Summer and Birth of Autumn which was theme linked, my next full length book is story laced about a man and woman who reconnect after being friends as children only to then get start going out as a couple.
When I first started really involved with poetry back in 2005 or 2006, the problem was trying to find the voice of each poem, but in the case of this book, it is trying to find the voice of not one poem but a full book of them.
Over the near three years, this book has being developing I have found almost like the characters have being doing this themselves has changed like a complex novel and has proved one of the most challenging projects I have ever tried, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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