Charlotte Baldwin works on a national project supporting young people’s mental health and as a creative writing tutor & dogwalker. Spotlight Poet #72 is the brilliant Charlotte Baldwin. This has made me eternally grateful for hot showers. We had to fetch our water from a well at the bottom of the hill, sometimes through a foot of snow. My parents had radical ideas about things so I grew up very much off-grid. He called it a sonnet and it's a mind-bending, tongue-twisting monstrous thing of beauty. 'That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection' by Gerard Manley Hopkins. What poem by another poet would you have liked to have written? If you could meet any dead poet, who would it be, why? 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' was where we started and 'The Road Not Taken' was a rite of passage into teenagehood. My mother made us memorise and recite poems regularly, from a young age. Probably Robert Louis Stevenson's poems for children, like 'How do you like to go up in a swing' and 'I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me'. Read more contemporary poetry, stop writing about your broken heart and be brave enough to read your shitty broken heart poems at university open mic nights. What advice would you give to your young poetself? Both are excitingly fresh in style and voice. Of poets writing now, Fran Lock and Naush Sabah have definitely changed the way I think about writing 'confessional' poetry. Edward Thomas also is a powerful influence, with his casual, conversational style concealing so much darkness and the way his poems often twist their way to a surprising, usually damning, conclusion: I think 'The Glory' is one of the most brilliant poems ever written. Nature, faith (or loss thereof), guilt, suppressed desire: these Hopkinsean themes tapped into my own concerns and spending a year really immersed in his work, including his journals, reinvigorated my writing and made me, for the first time, write with a genuine sense of poetic purpose. There is nothing more inspiring or exciting than Hopkins's extraordinary elasticity - of form and line - as well as his exhilarating, often manic, prosody coupled with his sheer joy in words and sound. I was writing poetry infrequently and indifferently until I started preparing to teaching Hopkins's poetry to my A Level students. Who would you say has had the biggest influence on your work and why? Her debut pamphlet, Climacteric, was published by Fly on the Wall Press in September.Ĭollections/pamphlets titles: Climacteric publisher website: .uk My work has been published widely in print and online, including in The Rialto, The North, Ambit, Poetry Birmingham and bath magg. Jo Bratten is a writer and teacher living in London.
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