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Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.
- John Barton
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My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.
- John Barton
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I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance.
- John Barton
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#Experiment
#Meaning
#Together
Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem.
- John Barton
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If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.
- John Barton
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In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.
- John Barton
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Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.
- John Barton
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An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.
- John Barton
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The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.
- John Barton
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I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me.
- John Barton
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#Me
The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like.
- John Barton
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#Children
#Community
#Like
#Only
We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future.
- John Barton
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#World
I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.
- John Barton
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A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.
- John Barton
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Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
- John Barton
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#Pull
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Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.
- John Barton
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#Understanding
To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.
- John Barton
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#Want
I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have.
- John Barton
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#Drawing
#Ideas
#Might
#Sometimes
Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.
- John Barton
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#Disregard
#Good
#How
#Knows
I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy.
- John Barton
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#Great
#Mine
You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.
- John Barton
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#Time
#Twice
The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight.
- John Barton
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#Hope
#Insight
#Me
#Will
Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
- John Barton
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#Poetry
#Reading
#Sometimes
No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?
- John Barton
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#Poetry
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