You don’t go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.
Category: poetry
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment in regarding one’s own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.
We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.
That is what I did with Jack, and that’s why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music.
Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I’ve learned about poetry – the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible – but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel’s length, satisfies the reader.
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you’ve lost the whole thing.
Marriage – a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.