When I Woke, The Town Spoke April 2017

Did you hear it last night? The town speaking, and singing, and clapping. Folks of Torbay it happened again

Robert Garnham: ‘Amazing night at Stanza Extravaganza! Eyebrow twerking, the Macarena, names out of a hat and mass foot stamping in rhythm. Oh, and poetry! Thanks Brenda Hutchings for hosting and Samantha Boarer for her mega headline set. I still can’t get the Stanza Extravaganza theme music out my head!’

In the midst of all this there is the literature, language, tone and timbre. Personally, Andrew Motion sums up how I feel about the process of writing poetry:

‘I never quite believe it when poets say that they’re not writing out of their own feelings, and when that is the case, I tend not to be terribly interested in what they’re doing.
I don’t mean to say that they are writing bad poems, but those aren’t the poems that I like most. The poems I most like are where the engine is a very emotional one, where the warmth of strong feeling is very powerfully present in the thing that is being given to us. I think poetry is a rather emotional form and when it isn’t that, I’m not very interested in it.’

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29538180

Last night was certainly warm and emotional- thank you, poets

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