Alison Croggon:
> I write a fair bit of prose, some of it more "poetic"
> than others, and no doubt this inflects what I'm saying: I'm
> beginning to think that it's all writing. I once thought there was a
> huge difference between prose and poetry, but as I've got older and
> more confused the distinction between prose poems and prose is by no
> means clear to me.
Seems like a good way to focus differences, though the verse/prose binary
strikes me, just now, as potentially clearer than poetry/prose, since
'poetry' tends to get used as a vague term of commendation.
So: why bother breaking lines? What can verse do that prose can't? I have my
own notions, but I'd be interested to know what others think, as I suspect
I'm more opinionated than lucid.
Cheers,
Trevor
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