I Love Poetry, I Love It

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i think there's a sense with poetry that you almost don't want to read more than one or two poems at a time. Ah, so poor was helen. It really is. But actually, and, i think poems are built to be savoured. They're not really built to be skimmed,. even though the, they're often short, and they, they perhaps could be. I think of every poem as an invitation to really end a lot of time with that poem. Like we need have the confidence as readers to have that encounter with one or two or three rather than trying to blump the whole book down like we might do with a novel.

Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.

This week Katherine chats to Maggie Smith, poet, writer and editor from Columbus, Ohio.

You may know Maggie's tremendous work via her poem 'Good Bones', which she has a difficult relationship with. The poem is often referenced in times of crisis, which she thinks of as a 'disaster barometer' - she break downs this fascinating dissonance in her chat with Katherine, which reaches a wide range of topics including metpahor, the 'tasting' approach to culture, her own range of published works, America's history of being unsafe for many, being honest with children, how younger people understand pronouns so well, the divorce whisperer, prose, how the content dictates the container, the act of physically writing on paper, seasons and the beauty in the decay of Fall. So much to inspire and invigorate. A delight.

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KATHERINE LINKS

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