poetry mini interviews

How important is music to your poetry?  I find it impossible to listen to music while writing poetry: I always end up wanting to sing along ...

When you require renewal, is there a particular poem or book that you return to? A particular author? Invictus , by William Ernest Henry. I ...

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? I do not like the way a poem that seems passable one day magically becomes dreadful th...

What poets changed the way you thought about writing? Shabbir Banoobhai.  When I first started reading Banoobhai’s work in high school, the ...

Donatella du Plessis is a micropoet from Durban, South Africa. Her poetry has appeared in Feminine Collective , Idle Ink , Dust Poetry Maga...