How do you know when a poem is finished?
When I’m absolutely sick to death of reading and looking at it. Having said that I don’t think a poem is ever fully finished. Every time I look at my chapbook, The Woman With An Owl Tattoo, (published by Fly on the Wall press last May), I find something else, I’d like to change. It might be a word, or a line break or an insertion of a comma, or full stop. That’s part of the fun of writing poetry. I love the tinkering with the words and lines and trying out different things with a poem to see what works best.
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