no nonsense thoughts about poetry
Contents

* Why are poets cornered?

* Does poetry have to mean anything?

* Architecture can serve as an object lesson for the creation of poetry

* The two ways of reading poetry can become entangled accidentally

* The poet and the analyst: a potentially destructive relationship

* Poetry and motorcycle maintenance have much in common

* Syntax variation affects meaning in English

* Beware of the bull that threatens the entire field

* The successful poet's rule book (if you want that kind of success)

* Dolly Parton – the poet still with us

* When writing a poem it's critical to know when to stop

* Is poetry a sport or a vocation?

* The two Cardinal Sins that may never be forgiven (or avoided)

*  Should our art be for art's sake, or for our readers'?

* Getting the words right is not the poet's primary challenge

* Rather than abandoning rhyme, why not use it to advantage?

* Your chatbot poet friend cannot be trusted to deliver

* Who's to be the reader of your published poetry?

* Is it enjambment, or merely jamming for the sake of it?

* Why has subject matter mostly become either banal or obscure?

* Inspiration: where does it come from and can you pursue it?

* Fundamental truth in relation to the nature of poetry

* The law of parsimony with reference to poetic imagery

* Artistic tool kits and their influence on quality

* How your brain divides the tasks of creation

* The flattening of language and clarity of thought

* 'Doing one's own thing': how far can it usefully go?

* Poetic movements: their effects on poetic independence

* Is this a poem that you just wrote?

* Impoverished perception and poetic expression

 and more to come 

 

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