“In my case, performance is part of the medium. Sometimes I feel that it's my main medium, and that the presentation of my poems on the page is secondary.” FeelsSometimesCasesPagesPerformancesMediumsPresentation Author:James Arthur
“When I'm most deeply involved in my writing, sometimes I do dream about poetry, and occasionally I wake up from a dream with a phrase that I like well enough to put it in a poem.” WritingWellsSometimesEnoughDreamInvolvedWake UpPhrases Author:James Arthur
“Our analytical faculties allow us to look critically at our writing and interpret it. Sometimes we make bold, impulsive edits to our poems, but most forms of precision and economy in poetry, it seems to me, are signatures of the analytical mind.” WritingMindLooksSometimesSeemsFormEconomyFacultyEditsPrecisionSignaturesImpulsive Author:James Arthur
“Maybe because I can't even put together an IKEA desk, I've never been tempted to think of my own poems as built objects - but I do sometimes imagine them as mathematical constructs.” ThinkingI CanSometimesTogetherMy OwnImagineObjectsBuiltMathematicalDesksConstructsTemptedBecause I CanIkea Author:James Arthur
