What poets changed the way you thought about writing?
I have to thank Michael Symmons Roberts for encouraging me to experiment with imagery and figurative language. In particular, his collection Corpus, is full of the most intricate images of light, nature, humanity and faith. Sharon Olds, whom I discovered during the UK’s first lockdown in 2020, certainly blurs the line between the poetic and the personal. I was staggered by her candor, the way she writes about her relationships, her own body and women’s bodies in general. It gave me the confidence to write more openly about my own issues with body image and intimacy. These poems have proven particularly cathartic and I haven’t looked back!
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