‘For prose I need my fingers moving on a keyboard or a page; poetry tends to come to me out loud (I live alone fortunately). It comes to me through its sound and I write the first few drafts aloud.’
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‘If I move to my laptop too soon I find it cuts off experiment and somehow ‘sets’ the poem in a way that makes if harder to make fundamental changes.’
‘A sentence that seems perfect when scribbled down in the middle of the night, can often appear, in the bracing light of day, flat and banal.’
Alyson Hallett luxuriates in an unusual writing week that’s actually mostly dedicated to writing, with a side serving of bonfires, friends, yoga al fresco and getting enjoyably lost in the woods.