I started serious writing with poetry and a wonderful teacher, Judyth Hill, encouraged me to self-publish. That means there is a pile of mint condition unsold books in one of my cupboards. Other poems were published in journals and online. I started writing short stories, some of which got published too and now I am flogging a fantasy novel to publishers and agents. Poetry was my key in the door and I still love writing verse
Poetry is for me a tight way of conveying a story, a feeling or a vignette. I'm an undisciplined person in daily life -- fits and starts and clutter, that's me -- but the other side of me worships the discipline of poetry for the same reason she worships short stories and crypto quizzes: the tightness. I prefer writing rhyming poems or very short forms like Haiku or Lunes, but I enjoy reading a good free verse any day.
Firstly, I love all the comments about poetry. I have a love and fear and overwhelm relationship with poetry. I write it sporadically, try to read it regularly. But I'm down with Robbie Ann - I too am an undisciplined person. But somehow it all seems to work out! My reading at the moment is Padraig O'Tuama, Evan Boland and Danielle Coffyn.
I started serious writing with poetry and a wonderful teacher, Judyth Hill, encouraged me to self-publish. That means there is a pile of mint condition unsold books in one of my cupboards. Other poems were published in journals and online. I started writing short stories, some of which got published too and now I am flogging a fantasy novel to publishers and agents. Poetry was my key in the door and I still love writing verse
Poetry is for me a tight way of conveying a story, a feeling or a vignette. I'm an undisciplined person in daily life -- fits and starts and clutter, that's me -- but the other side of me worships the discipline of poetry for the same reason she worships short stories and crypto quizzes: the tightness. I prefer writing rhyming poems or very short forms like Haiku or Lunes, but I enjoy reading a good free verse any day.
I have coined a term for my ventures into that field: Poetry-like substances
Firstly, I love all the comments about poetry. I have a love and fear and overwhelm relationship with poetry. I write it sporadically, try to read it regularly. But I'm down with Robbie Ann - I too am an undisciplined person. But somehow it all seems to work out! My reading at the moment is Padraig O'Tuama, Evan Boland and Danielle Coffyn.