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Katie Woods's avatar

Thanks for introducing me to Lisa. A new poet for me ✍️✨ So relatable, how she talks about ideas coming to her at inconvenient times, like driving // feeding baby // on a walk with no phone // late at night when too tired to jot it down! Love that she didn’t properly get going until her 40’s creatively - gives me hope! 🤪

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Tamsin's avatar

Oh this insightful and sounded like the person who lives in my head. I love how her words are masters of themselves too, like,mine, coming at inconvenient times. I also have that one poem I can’t find, it’s somewhere, I definitely wrote it down, now it’s hiding. I actually started an essay on whether lyrics are poetry only last week, talking to my singer songwriter daughter about it all. I actually wrote a poem about the from of poetry whilst I was in college. I was fed up with the tutors feeding us word and form to write with that were old fashioned and stilted. I’ll save that for Friday and try another one too.

I love Brain Bilston too, I use one of his Christmas poems about Xmas trees dropping word needles most years as my avatar on FB.

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