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Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with... →
I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a... →
No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?
The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much... →
A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.
You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.
Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.
Reading should be a repeat performance.
The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.
To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.
I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to... →
I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal... →
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