100% pure Bunting (+ link to 4 poems)
Bunting on Islam
Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anaemia.
Bunting on Briggflatts
All old wives' chatter, cottage wisdom. No poem is profound.
Bunting's advice to young poets
I SUGGEST:
1. Compose aloud; poetry is a sound.
2. Vary rhythm enough to stir the emotion you want but not so as to lose impetus.
3. Use spoken words and syntax.
4. Fear adjective; they bleed nouns. Hate the passive.
5. Jettison ornament gaily but keep shape
Put your poem away till you forget it, then:
6. Cut out every word you dare.
7. Do it again a week later, and again.
Never explain - your reader is as smart as you.
Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anaemia.
Bunting on Briggflatts
All old wives' chatter, cottage wisdom. No poem is profound.
Bunting's advice to young poets
I SUGGEST:
1. Compose aloud; poetry is a sound.
2. Vary rhythm enough to stir the emotion you want but not so as to lose impetus.
3. Use spoken words and syntax.
4. Fear adjective; they bleed nouns. Hate the passive.
5. Jettison ornament gaily but keep shape
Put your poem away till you forget it, then:
6. Cut out every word you dare.
7. Do it again a week later, and again.
Never explain - your reader is as smart as you.
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