Tag Archive for 'poetry'

I need your advice

Right. How do you write a poem? I mean, without feeling all self-conscious about it and worrying about what poems are supposed to sound like and getting your head stuck in some other century and ending up with at best a bad parody and at worst a limp imitation1. Come on come on come on, deadlines to meet, I haven’t got all day.

  1. I originally wrote “limp invitation”. Feel free to psychoanalyse that once you’ve addressed the main body of the post (I’d like to address HER main body, wha). []