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Interview with Kirsty Stanley
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EDP: Tell us about your first memory of encountering poetry?
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My memory is pretty poor. It will have been at school though. I’ve always enjoyed reading poems. When we learnt poetry we were always told to just look at the words. I wanted to know more about the context of the poems. I remember being relieved [...]
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INTERVIEW WITH LYNDON PERRY • by Lyndon Perry 3 Comments
EDP: What is your first memory of encountering poetry?
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I’m sure I was read nursery rhymes as a child, but my first exposure in a class setting was fifth grade. Most of the poetry we read was Paul Bunyon/John Henry type of verse – Western, American-mythic, epic. I loved reading and writing about Babe, 16 Ton, [...]
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INTERVIEW WITH JONATHAN PINNOCK • by Jonathan Pinnock 12 Comments
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EDP: What is your first memory of encountering poetry?
I think the first poem that I remember enjoying was probably something by either A.A.Milne or Lewis Carroll. It was the rhythm of things like Milne’s “Disobedience” that I responded to and the sheer absurdity of Lewis Carroll.
And, thanks to school English lessons, I can still recite [...]
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INTERVIEW WITH POLENTH BLAKE • by Polenth Blake No Comments
Our most read poem in July was Polenth Blake’s ‘The Dog’s Complaint.’EDP: What is your first memory of encountering poetry?
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I remember Dr. Seuss books being read to me. Once I could read, I moved on to the poetry books in the house, starting with a collection by Ogden Nash.
EDP: Tell us a bit about the [...]
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INTERVIEW • Anuradha Vijayakrishnan 5 Comments
EDP: What is your first memory of encountering poetry?
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AV: At school, I think, though my mother says she used to read poetry to me even while I was a baby. Our textbooks were filled with simple and time tested poems – but we read and memorised them only so that we could answer well in [...]
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INTERVIEW WITH PSC 3 Comments
EDP: What is your first memory of encountering poetry?
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PSC: First memory? Hmmm . . . that would be a long time ago. Not sure if I can say for certain. I remember reading Dr Seuss — does that count? I also remember a poem that my mother taught to my sisters and me when we [...]
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Interview with Elizabeth Crocket 5 Comments
EDP: What is your first memory of encountering poetry?
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My mother enjoyed reading and writing poetry. I remember her reading to me from “Sonnets from the Portugese.”
EDP: Tell us a bit about the how, when and why you started to write poetry.
I’ve written poetry and fiction off and on all of my life, using writing as [...]
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Interview with Steve Goble 5 Comments
Steve Goble was our most-read poet for February with his Japanese short form poem, “Winter’s Ghost“.
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EDP: Your most-read poem at EDP was a haiku. What attracts you to the haiku form?
Steve Goble: I don’t recall when I first read it, but way back in the day I came across a fabulous haiku by Matsuo Basho. [...]
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Interview with D.C. Porder 1 Comment
D.C. Porder’s poem “Aunt Sharon“ was the most revisited of our poems for January. Everybody seemed to have a different favourite bit and one reader, Dave Cryer, described it as “Momentary, but momentous,” an apt phrase for that fine line between life and death which D.C. drew for us with so fine a pen. So we were pleased to [...]
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Interview with Daniel Ausema 8 Comments
Daniel Ausema was our most-read poet in December 2008. His poem “Running with the Eagle” — its evocation of the natural strength and beauty of the raptor and the inspiration the narrator draws from it — resonated with readers.
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Every Day Poets: What should readers expect when they see your byline on a poem?
Daniel Ausema: In poetry, [...]
