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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