Each time when the poem returns to me, I reconsider it. Either more revision occurs, or else I congratulate myself on my genius and send it out again. Most poems experience either some revision or a wholesale recasting during these years. As I mention above, reading The Holy Barbarians led me to try my hand at writing long rambling pieces. The session when I was in Grade 12 with Earle Birney, that I also mention above, taught me the importance of craft.
I think my first-ever poem was published while I was in Grade 12—a piece about B. What is most useful to a young poet is to constantly read poems by poets active today, and also to constantly read poems that poets wrote in the past.
These poems are found in literary magazines, in anthologies of poems written by many poets, and in collections of poems written by a single poet. You need to become familiar with what has been done, and to thus see what you can learn from those who practiced the art before you, and to understand what contribution you can make to the art form.
Musicians and wannabe musicians listen to music all the time, seeing what riffs to emulate, steal and avoid. These people buy or otherwise acquire recordings endlessly, and are forever going to clubs and concerts to observe and listen.
Artists and wannabe artists of every type painting, clay, fine woodworking, etc. Journeyed tradesmen and tradeswomen constantly observe how other craftspeople practice their trade, again looking for ideas to adapt, avoid or adopt.
You need to be reading poems all the time, the way a superb ball player is forever noodling around with a ball, or a great guitarist is forever noodling around with her or his instrument. Where am I Going? Filter and refine your search using the categories below.
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In an interview published in the Winnipeg literary magazine CV2 in Spring , I said: Musicians and wannabe musicians listen to music all the time, seeing what riffs to emulate, steal and avoid. Anthologies Literary Criticism Poetry. Canadian Studies History Regionalism. The Energy of Slaves by Leonard Cohen. Boire Poetry. He graduated in with a B.
During his undergraduate years Wayman worked as a journalist on the Vancouver Sun , and on the UBC student newspaper The Ubyssey of which he was editor-in-chief in In Wayman went to southern California for graduate work, receiving an M.
He subsequently worked at a range of manual and academic jobs in Colorado, Ontario, Michigan, and Alberta, as well as British Columbia. Two collections of Wayman's short fiction appeared in a collection of short stories, Boundary Country , and a collection of novellas, A Vain Thing.
For many years Wayman was interested in people writing about their own workplace experiences, and about how their jobs affect their lives after work. He was a co-founder of the Vancouver Industrial Writers' Union, a work-writing circle, and has participated in a number of labor arts ventures. He raises flowers and vegetables, which he tries to keep the deer from eating. He drives a Nissan Pathfinder 4 x 4, which he enjoys very much.
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