Q&A …

… Author Interview: Writer Clive James - Writing Against the Dying of the Light - The Arts Fuse. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

 Most poems are summaries and I suppose I’m in a summary mood. A poem does offer the prospect of getting something definitively said. On the other hand it nearly always takes more work than might be apparent. The last aspect, I find, is the governing factor: I keep at it until it sounds easy.