Ask Nathan Anything: Quarantine Edition

[Filuwaúrdjan]

indeed, many Leonard Cohen and Florence Welch lyrics have been published as poems. But by and large the only fans of their poetry are people who discovered them through their music, because so many Very Serious Poetry People are mired in free verse orthodoxy.

You'll be delighted to know that Cohen's poetry sells well.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Poetry is about making words dance on the page. There are different ways of going about this - and the language the poem is written in has some impact here (e.g. it is relatively easy to write a good villanelle in Italian but bloody hard in English) - and all are quite legitimate, but that is the essence of it. If one loses sight of this in any direction, then the result is bad poetry.