poetry mini interviews

How does a poem begin? So many ways. A line might wake me at night. I might be walking. or driving. I might overhear a half-sentence on a bu...

Why is poetry important?  It feels like coming home.

How important is music to your poetry?  Pretty important. I listen to a specific piece on a loop, or something like Ludovico Eindaudi, or Ph...

What other poetry books have you been reading lately? Stephanie Sy Quia, Emily Berry.

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t? Like all art forms poetry can convey emotion, commemorate history, expose inj...

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 belong to severa...

How do you know when a poem is finished?  It's that feeling thing: that point when musicality and spareness of language can meet; when t...

Mary Mulholland’s poems are widely published, for example in AMBIT , Perverse , Arc , London Grip , Marble , Finished Creatures , MIROnline...