I _can't_ write poetry if I think about "who" I'm writing for. I can
write any number of other things, and often have, but poetry is
different. For me. Intention towards an audience is something I find
crippling, and a major problem for me is finding the release away from
the external ear to something more freeing, a more abstract gaze perhaps,
which permits the poem simply to be what it is. Whatever that is.
Bakhtin's idea of the ideal interlocutor chimes with me, as a fairly
sophisticated inner construction. At a crucial soul searching time I
asked myself the question of whether I would keep writing if I knew, for
certain, that no one else would read it: and my honestest answer to
myself was "yes". I still have no idea why, really.
Best
Alison
Alison Croggon
Editor
Masthead Literary Arts Magazine
PO Box 186
NEWPORT VIC 3015
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