poetry mini interviews

When you require renewal, is there a particular poem or book that you return to? A particular author? The late Goh Poh Seng, because the fir...

How does your work first enter the world? Do you have a social group or writers group that you work ideas and poems with? I host Rue Towers ...

Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began? To wed the “political” with the “personal” the pathos of my poetry is plain. Poems...

How do you know when a poem is finished? My knowing when a poem I have been working on for several weeks is done is when it closes itself to...

How did you first engage with poetry? I read the poem "Babi Yar" by Yevgeny Yevtushenko in a magazine. His work focused on war atr...

Ilona Martonfi is a poet, editor and activist; she is the author of four poetry books, Blue Poppy (2009), Black Grass (2012), The Snow K...