Everything I’m Learning About Poetry – Quantity versus Quality

Since coming back from my Arvon poetry course, I’ve written poetry almost non-stop – in a flood you might say (somewhere around 25 poems )- interrupted only by a week away at my son’s beautiful wedding in Brantome in France.

Written at such a pace, you would be forgiven for asking are these poems any good? Quantity versus quality and all that – well surprisingly for me I would say they are. I think with every poem I write I get better. I learn more. It doesn’t mean they’re all brilliant, at a...