“Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.”
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I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.
I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.