Sunday 25 March 2018

Kim Goldberg : part four


When you require renewal, is there a particular poem or book that you return to? A particular author?
The best book on my shelf for getting me writing new poems is In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry, edited by Kate Braid and Sandy Shreve. The book contains great discussion, explanations and examples of various poetic forms. Within 20 minutes of opening that book, I find myself trying my hand at a pantoum or triolet or sonnet. Lately, I’ve had a good run with Sam Hamill’s magnum opus of collected poems Habitation as being a rich source of inspiration for me. I am very fond of prose poems, so opening almost any anthology of prose poems gets the words flowing.

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