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( I went to an absolutely amazing event in London last night. )

Don Paterson, writing about po-mo poetry in the Preface to New British Poetry:

Mostly, though, their work is incomprehensible..... By 'incomprehension' I don't mean a reaction to 'difficulty' or 'strangeness'; strangeness and difficulty abound in the Mainstream. I refer to that special category of difficulty whose sensible interpretation or ( Read more... )

Don Paterson, on writing poetry in form:

I also find that subconscious can operate a lot more freely if I throw the left side of my brain some indigestible intellectual doggy-chew to shut it up and prevent it from interrupting. In that sense, form is like the honey-cake you throw to Cerberus to placate him while you nip into Hades to steal ( Read more... )

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I feel like when I'm sitting in front of an empty page, part of the problem is I feel like the poem could start anywhere.  So there I am sitting in front of an empty page and I feel like the page is almost a symbol of pure potential.  I could start with the window or the bird or my feet or my shoes or my socks or my nose, my thumb, anywhere, I ( Read more... )

So what is it about American poets? Why are they so bloody hung up on the supposedly unbridgeable divide between those who rhyme and those who don't ( Read more... )