POETS
John Whitworth
Interview with Walter Ancarrow
I never start with an idea, or I nearly never do. Poems are made up of words, not ideas, just as paintings are made up of paint, not subjects. I don't care too much about meaning, but a lot about sound and image. Meaning is where prose lives. "A green thought in a green shade." What does that mean? Or, come to that, Larkin's "Such attics cleared of me. Such absences." Or Wallace Stevens' marvellous incantation about Tehuantapec.
Poetry
Holy Shark
By
The world where I live is the world that I make,
And the world that I make is the world that I wish,
And the world that I wish is the road that I take,
That I take to the dark of an underground lake,
And the answer to this is a fish, is a fish,
And the answer to this is a fish.
Topical Poem
Straight Talk
By
Would you like to buy it?
My heart is for sale.
Would you like to buy it,
no haggling over it?
God's made it a lover's,
you'll make it your own;
God's made it a lover's
for one lover alone.
CREDITS
Cover banner photo: Iceland's Volcanic Landscapes With Northern Lights, by James Appleton/Barcroft Media
Topical poem image: Satellite View of Post-Tropical Cyclone Sandy on Oct. 30, NOAA/NASA GOES Project
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