Showing posts with label Robert Penn Warren. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Penn Warren. Show all posts

Sunday, 17 February 2013

"How do poems grow? They grow out of your life"




I've had a couple of poems published in the latest issue of Shot Glass Journal, an American journal produced by Muse Pie Press and specialising in short-form poetry. (They also published me last year.) You can find my poems on this link: http://www.musepiepress.com/shotglass/issue9/clarissa_aykroyd1.html

'Krakow' was written about four and a half years ago, after my visit to the city, and 'Battersea Park, December' is only a couple of months old. The photograph above was partial inspiration.

I think the two poems work quite well as a pair, as they are both poems about place and displacement, in different ways.

The quotation "How do poems grow? They grow out of your life" is from American poet Robert Penn Warren.