Friday, October 13, 2023

Anthony Wilson, Poet, Teacher, Author of Lifesaving Poems

Why do you write?

I think I have to, really. I don’t think it is a choice. (Except, of course, it is.) I don’t go along with the idea of having something to say. I write to find out what I want to say. For me it is about discovery. Things occur to me which I want to say which I would not have said had I not started writing. William Stafford said that, and he was right.

What would you say to someone who asked you “How do you become a writer?”

Read. Everything. And forget about having a ‘career’. ‘You make the thing because you love the thing/ and you love the thing because someone else loved it/ enough to make you love it.’ Thomas Lux.

https://thewombwellrainbow.com/2019/10/25/wombwell-rainbow-interviews-anthony-wilson/

https://anthonywilsonpoetry.com/lifesavingpoemsblog/

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