We live in such a digital age. Paper is going out of our lives. A poem on paper is tangible.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To a poet, it's quite ruinous to have a poem distorted, out of shape, or squeezed, shall we say, into this tiny screen. But I'm not sure big digital companies are sensitive to the needs of poets.
On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.
For better or worse, poetry is my life.
Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.
I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.
I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives.
Long before we created libraries, or even books, poetry was the way we humans remembered who we were, a primary means of documenting and contemplating our lives.