Just a Few Questions from the Panel
Why do you want to be a poet?
What sort of work do poets do?
What, in your view, is the difference
between the work of a poet
and the work of a civil engineer?
What would you say
if you were asked to write concrete poetry?
What would you say
if you were asked to build a concrete boat?
Why do some poems rhyme?
What makes a slum?
What is a Found Poem
and where might you find one?
What is conservative dentistry? What should be done
in the case of an elderly person who steals a bar of soap?
What are the qualities of a sound net-ball defence?
Why do you want to be a poet?
Is there a future in fish farming?
—C. J. Allen
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from A Strange Arrangement: New and Selected Poems (Leafe Press, 2007)