Sunday 10 January 2021

Donatella du Plessis : part three

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry?

I do not like the way a poem that seems passable one day magically becomes dreadful the next. It’s like being demoralised by one’s own brain. Virginia Woolf says it best: 

Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail; how he wrote and it seemed good; read and it seemed vile; corrected and tore up; cut out; put in; was in ecstasy; in despair; had his good nights and bad mornings,’ etc.


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