Thursday 26 May 2022

Nicholas Ruddock : part four

Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began? 

Yes. I started out thinking that poetry was shorter, easier, and so enigmatic that you could skate around ideas and emotions without commitment. In fact, poetry turned out to be more exacting, exposing insincerity and technical incompetence without mercy, poorly chosen words glaring back from the white page, J’accuse.

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