Below is an interview with the incredibly talented winner of our National Poetry Day Competition:
The Random Section
1.What’s your name?
David Clear
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2.What’s your favourite colour?
Blue
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3.What’s your favourite animal?
Snow leopard
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4.What’s your favourite food?
Pizza
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5.What kind of hobbies do you like?
Chess, yard work
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6.What’s your favourite time of year?
Winter
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7.Do you prefer tea, coffee or none?
both
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8.What’s your lucky number?
27
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The Writing Section
9.What would you say poetry is?
The distillation of left brain/right brain vibrations
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10.How long have you been writing poetry?
Fifty years
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11.What inspired your winning poem?
Edgar Allan Poe
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12.How do you normally find inspiration?
Life
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13.Do you know the title of your poem before you write it, or do you write it and then create your title?
Sometimes one sometimes the other
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14.Do you write your poems with pen and paper or on a device?
computer
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15.Who’s your favourite author?
Thomas Wolfe
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16.Who’s your favourite poet?
Rilke, Rumi, it’s a tie
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17.What’s your favourite book?
Snow Leopard
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18.What’s your favourite poem?
The road not taken by Frost
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19.How do you go about writing a poem?
One line at a time
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20.Why do you like poetry?
Freedom of creative expression
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21.Do you have any advice for aspiring poets?
Get started and keep going