Thursday, July 26, 2012

High praise ...

... On Poetry by Glyn Maxwell – review | Books | The Guardian. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)


What is it about this form with its short, jagged-edged lines, its patterning of words and sounds? What makes it different from chopped-up prose? On this, as on much else, Maxwell is brisk and forthright: if you're going to write poetry, "line-break is all you've got, and if you don't master line-break – the border between poetry and prose – then you don't know there is a border. And there is a border. (A prose poem is prose done by a poet.)"

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