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> In fact, I'd say that the narrative poem is
> closer to fiction than to poetry,
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> Candice
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Absolutely. I remember attempting a longish narrative poem about ten years
ago, and getting my knickers in a twist over some structural point or other.
Eventually, someone suggested I tackled the problem as though I were writing
a novel. Which was clearly the right advice, but made me realise that
extended narrative poetry wasn't really what I wanted out of life.
Sequence -- now that's a whole 'nother story.
joanna
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