What Sparks Poetry:
Niki Herd on Language as Form
"My poems usually take several months, if not years, to write themselves but 'Lyric Sung in Third Person' will only take a few short months. I often think cinematically and the poem's draft is asking me to deviate from the conversational tone of my previous work. It's asking for a reflective and lyrical treatment. Here, I imagine a canvas filled with lineated images and caesuras in my attempt to engage the visual and kinetic energy of the page." |
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"Shane McCrae: 'They Kidnapped Me to Get Me Away from Blackness'"
"The confidence to make the call was boosted, perhaps, by two influences in McCrae's life at the time: skateboarding and, increasingly, poetry. Both gave him a sense of being in a world of his own, free from the violent influence of his grandparents. Both contained the idea, he says, 'that you can lose yourself. When you're making a poem, even when what you're writing is terrible, or graphically violent, or really sad, or emotionally wrenching – there's almost no subject that's so terrible that you can't feel a joy in writing about it.'"
via THE GUARDIAN |
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