poetry mini interviews

How do you know when a poem is finished? Yeats says a poem should end like a well-made box, closing, but these days I know a poem is finishe...

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t? Poetry is so precise … it can be read in an instant but felt for an eternity ...

When you require renewal, is there a particular poem or book that you return to? A particular author? I do have to pull myself up and back e...

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...