In Susan Sontag’s ‘On Photography’ (1977) she quotes Hannah Arendt writing about Walter Benjamin: “nothing was more characteristic of him in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which he always carried with him and in which he tirelessly entered in the form of quotations what daily living and reading netted him in … Continue reading ‘The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry’
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‘High hopes or none, we’ve no idea where we are’
If I’m unsure about a book of poetry, if I like some poems but not others, I will copy out the ones that work. It means I have the poems to re-read, but more importantly it slows me down enough to have a proper look, or listen (I could, after all just photocopy them). Copying … Continue reading ‘High hopes or none, we’ve no idea where we are’

