How important is music to your poetry?
Vital. Each book has a soundtrack, one that delivers a style and tone I want to feel while writing. I don’t listen closely I just let it wash and inform the direction my pen sways in. Safe Spaces (Frog Hollow Press) was all about Nick Cave (particularly Skeleton Tree and Push the Sky Away), Recovery Community (Mansfield Press) was all Twin Peaks, David Lynch, Angelo Badalamenti. This Insistent List has been very heavy but also crisp precise and removed so, lots of Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Kraftwerk. Oddly enough, the current work (the long poem) has been written almost entirely without music, likely because it partly deals with silence so, the absence of music has sound-tracked this most recent work (groan).
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