What the Hell is Poetry?

…that question beloved of workshop openers.

One of my favourites:

The wonderful Michael Longley:

” If I knew where poetry came from, I’d go there.”

Was it John Hewitt who said:

” If you write poetry you only have yourself to blame”?

 

 

 

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