http://www.thecraftywriter.com/2008/04/29/how-free-is-free-verse/ the business and craft of writing Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:19:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.thecraftywriter.com/2008/04/29/how-free-is-free-verse/#comment-1925 Creative Writing - poetry at The Crafty Writer Thu, 01 May 2008 08:24:30 +0000 http://www.thecraftywriter.com/2008/04/29/how-free-is-free-verse/#comment-1925 [...] more on free verse, read Fiona’s post on How Free is Free Verse? and for a discussion on the importance of sound, see Joan’s post Are You Listening [...] [...] more on free verse, read Fiona’s post on How Free is Free Verse? and for a discussion on the importance of sound, see Joan’s post Are You Listening [...]

]]> http://www.thecraftywriter.com/2008/04/29/how-free-is-free-verse/#comment-1923 Fiona Veitch Smith Thu, 01 May 2008 07:05:56 +0000 http://www.thecraftywriter.com/2008/04/29/how-free-is-free-verse/#comment-1923 Who of us do take criticism well, Jim? But you're right, poetry is possibly the most personal of all writing genre and closest to the 'self' and maybe that's why it hurts so much when criticism is received. Mind you, I critiqued someone's prose, the gist of it being 'you write well but tend to labour the point. Work on brevity and your writing could approach publishable standard' and he started sending me hate mail! Thanks for stopping by and I'm glad the post was of some use. Who of us do take criticism well, Jim? But you’re right, poetry is possibly the most personal of all writing genre and closest to the ’self’ and maybe that’s why it hurts so much when criticism is received. Mind you, I critiqued someone’s prose, the gist of it being ‘you write well but tend to labour the point. Work on brevity and your writing could approach publishable standard’ and he started sending me hate mail! Thanks for stopping by and I’m glad the post was of some use.

]]> http://www.thecraftywriter.com/2008/04/29/how-free-is-free-verse/#comment-1918 Jim Murdoch Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:35:00 +0000 http://www.thecraftywriter.com/2008/04/29/how-free-is-free-verse/#comment-1918 I enjoyed this post very much, in fact I think I'll hang onto the URL to point newbies to. I review poems on-line quite often and so many of them have evidently no clue what a poem is. They pour their emotions on the page, chop up the lines and think they have a poem. The thing is – and I'm sure you've found this – poets are THE most sensitive people in the world and they do not take criticism without putting up a helluva fight. I enjoyed this post very much, in fact I think I’ll hang onto the URL to point newbies to. I review poems on-line quite often and so many of them have evidently no clue what a poem is. They pour their emotions on the page, chop up the lines and think they have a poem. The thing is – and I’m sure you’ve found this – poets are THE most sensitive people in the world and they do not take criticism without putting up a helluva fight.

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