Revising a poem is like a game of Jenga: Finding the point just before collapse.
Poetry is the strait between talk and prose. It fits like a jacket.
A writer closes a door—the poet discloses it.
Giles Goodland's books include Of Discourse (Grand Iota 2023). A Spy in the House of Years (Leviathan, 2001) Capital (Salt, 2006), Dumb Messengers (Salt, 2012) and The Masses (Shearsman, 2018). Civil Twilight was published by Parlor Press in 2022. He has worked as a lexicographer, editor, and bookseller, and teaches evening classes on poetry and linguistics for Oxford University's department of continuing education, and lives in West London.