![]() ![]() They are poets whose company I consistently enjoy. ![]() I’m just sitting here at my desk looking at my bookshelf, in fact. This is by no means a definitive list and in no particular order. There are enough surprises within their writing to keep the mind light and alive. However, I have a few poets that, purely on a personal level, always delight and are a simple pleasure to read. They can be bad news for the imaginative process. ![]() Sometimes the reading is something of a chore and there are many “great” poets I find boring, inscrutable, long-winded and painful to read. It jimmies open the imagination, making the mind more receptive to metaphor and abstraction and serves as a bridge from the reasoned mind to a stranger state of alertness, in case that precious idea decides to drop by. I try to read, at the very least, a half-hour of poetry a day, before I begin to do my own writing. During one of the ‘In Conversation’ events, you mentioned that you look to some poets for inspiration in your songwriting. ![]()
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