What we start with and what we choose has an impact on what we end up with but there’s a lot of manoeuvring room in between. In Toward a Blacker Ardour (Beautiful Outlaw, 2021) Phil Hall said, “I perk up as if revision were my only remaining trusted evidence of a future.” Conceiving of a […]
Category Archives: Poetics
Poetics Statement
poetics statement 2021 What am I trying to do? What am I trying to avoid? What do I value? what do I want to write? why? what matters? what do I want to read? Is it still process not product? Whereas before I wanted to break systems of thought, habits and associations and what passed […]
Patreon
Now you have the option of supporting my work financially. I have worked full-time at writing since 2006. Kick in what you can and I’ll do the same in giving perks of thanks. If you become a patron before May 13th I’ll mail you a poem postcard in welcome.
Interview
Some of the questions I was posed for the Girl Guides included these: Do you have poems about dragons? Not yet. But magic yes, and poems that play in imagination. I read from a pet radish, shrunken (Book*hug, 2015). What inspires you to make a poem? Sometimes when you have no one you can talk […]