Don Paterson's 'How I Write'

'A great hero of mine, the American critic Randall Jarrell, said that a poem is a way of forgetting how you came to write it; if that's true, and I think it probably is, all of what follows is complete lies...'

maybe (and this theme is taken up again in the TS Eliot lecture) but still worth looking at closely. Click on the link and then 'Prose: The dilemma of the poet'.