I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.
From George Murray
Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.
I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.
I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to journals again in a year or so... that's about it.
I do try to let what is obviously unintended yet naturally good stay in.
I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.
I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction.
I suppress the vast majority of what I write.
I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.
I'm not interested in being easy anymore. Readable, yes. Easy, no.
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