I was asked recently how and why I was drawn to poetry in the first place — rather than something like a novel. When somebody asks me that, I describe falling into it — but what does this actually mean, and how could you start? As such, this will be a development of a previous blog post where I discussed similar ideas, but I will be going into these a little bit more in depth and approaching them from a different angle. I've mentioned a few times before that I started writin

Poetry is all about exploring big concepts and complex feelings in a way that is succinct and hits home in the right way. A way that can be useful to do this is a stream of consciousness of what you need to say. For example, when I am first writing a poem, I have an idea of the central theme or emotion, but I'm not sure how to frame it.