So, on Thursday night, I was listening to someone read a poem about a rocket disaster (don’t ask me the reason, it’s too complex). The poem began with some beautiful imagery about the preparations for launch, then switched, two-thirds of the way through, to some very factual sentences reporting the disintegrating situation that led to allContinue reading “More About My Struggle With Poetry”
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What Decides Literary Genre?
This week, I heard someone reading a poem that sounded to me exactly like prose. Now, I’ve always been bad at understanding or passing any meaningful comment on poetry (it’s my blind spot) but the more I listened the more I realised I was responding to the poem exactly as if it were a shortContinue reading “What Decides Literary Genre?”
The ‘Rules’ of Writing
I’m beginning to doubt more and more of the ‘rules’ of creating writing. Maybe this is a good thing. Take, for example, the shock and horror that goes around writers’ workshops when someone dares to ‘tell’ some piece of back story instead of ‘showing’ it. It has become more and more apparent to me inContinue reading “The ‘Rules’ of Writing”
