I’m not a poet. Yes, I wrote some shitty poetry in my teenage years, but didn’t everybody? And then, in my early twenties, I had a short-lived poetic spell after I broke up with my first love, in which I penned some terribly unoriginal poems about love and loss. But I’ve always been a fiction lover first and foremost, and anyway, after I moved to Canada at twenty-five, faced with a new language, I wasn’t writing much of anything. When I started writing in English in my thirties, I wrote exclusively prose, first nonfiction and then fiction. Sometimes, people kindly…
On Writing Poetry
