poetry mini interviews

I have been utterly wowed by the writers I have discovered on Twitter this year and would like to thank everyone for collectively creating s...

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? Everything! If I think about it, I find it incredible that anyone even tries. There ar...

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 was privileged t...

How does a poem begin? In my head. Somewhere in amongst the endless chatter there might be a phrase or an image that keeps reasserting itsel...

What are you working on? I completed a 300-line poetry portfolio in the summer as part of my creative writing diploma, and am still tinkerin...

Katie Jenkins lives in Gloucestershire, England, with her husband and son. Her poetry is in print in Everyman’s Library’s Pocket Poets col...