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Robert Minhinnick: About ‘Wild Swimming…’
About ‘Wild Swimming…’ “Nothing comes from nowhere” is a mantra that make increasing sense to me. My writing depends on memory, location, association. And writing, especially my poetry, sparks into … Continue reading
Ian Seed: A Process of Abandonment
I have little self-confidence when it comes to writing long pieces, and usually will only do so under extreme pressure, for example having to submit my PhD thesis in 2012. … Continue reading
In 2010 Long Poem Magazine published my poem Panama Canal. The poem formed part of my sequence Graceline which Enitharmon brought out that same year. When I was 11 years … Continue reading
Penelope Shuttle: Some Thoughts on the Long Poem as an Extended Sequence
I like to both write and read very brief poems where image and idea combine in an instantaneous cleansing of perception. There is a vitality and resonance about working in … Continue reading
The first thing I want to do is bear witness to the value of the Long Poem Magazine’s mission; I found working on a larger scale liberating and productive, but … Continue reading
Timothy Adès: How Do I Do It? – Translating & Writing Poetry
I’ve no idea how I do it – the words come from somewhere. From the Muse – that’s as good an answer as any. I start and, mostly, I go … Continue reading
Mark Goodwin: Magishun & Shadows
I’m afraid that as I begin to think about putting into prose how a poem was made the whole process seems to slip away into the shadows . . . … Continue reading
Susan Watson: A Confrontation and a Conversation – Miriam Leivers Reads ‘Middlemarch’
I came upon Anne Carson’s long poem ‘The Glass Essay’ by accident, while browsing in a second-hand bookshop. ‘The Glass Essay’ is a narrative in which a nameless ‘I’ records … Continue reading