Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began?
Yes, hugely. At first I was mainly interested in the expressive side. Sure, I paid attention to sound and imagery, but getting the emotions on the page was really my priority. As my depression waned, the way I read and wrote poetry shifted. I began to pay more and more attention to euphony, effective imagery, thematic coherence etc. In my first couple of years at university, I started to formulate an informal poetics about what attracted me to poetry, why I wanted to write it, and why in English and not my mother tongue. From that point onwards, my poetics shifted from mainly confessional to more diverse and ambiguous literary aims.
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