poetry mini interviews

How important is music to your poetry? It’s a huge catalyst. I’ve written before about being a Jim Morrison and Doors fan and I started writ...

What other poetry books have you been reading lately? Where do I start? I have some cracking anthologies. I’ve been reading 100 Poems to Sav...

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? Creative tensions abound in writing poetry. When poets start out and are unpublished, ...

Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began? Yes, since taking poetry seriously in 2018 I realise more and more how many talent...

How do you know when a poem is finished? I don’t think poems are ever finished, even if they have a finished, complete feel to them. If you ...

Matthew M. C. Smith is a writer from Swansea, Wales. He writes about landscape, the passage of time, spirit of place, memory and cosmos. Ma...