Epics in miniature

The poems were engaging especially for the way large ideas were wrestled onto a small canvas.

Everything comes in different shapes

Some poems were about size, some experimented with how the poem looked on the page.

Though there's a resurgence of interest in myth-making, it appears that someone else, somewhere, has to do the telling.

A very concrete image could possibly anchor an abstract poem but only in very skilful hands that are not writing to a deadline.

I bring back stones because they remind me of places I want to carry back with me.

When I read them, I detect their structure and rhythm in everything I hear afterwards.

I still think there's gold in the idea of making a lullaby out of a villanelle.

Repetition makes the villanelle song-like. The force and purpose of the line changes with the context of preceding lines or stanzas.

Something happens to the poem in the process of talking back or writing back.