poetry mini interviews

How important is music to your work: You mean rhythm and sound combined?  Without music, it is not poetry.  It just isn’t.  It is something ...

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? The agonising last throes of finishing. I often 'finish' as I'm submitting...

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 haven’t shared p...

How do you know when a poem is finished? Everything is unfinished. It always is. I remember being outraged when learning that W.H. Auden sai...

How did you first engage with poetry? My introduction to poetry was extremely random and archaic-- two qualities which may be found in my po...

When you require renewal, is there a particular poem or book that you return to? A particular author? I always return to Charles Bernstein’s...

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry? What I find most difficult is more about my creative process … I am a percolator … So ...