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John Barton

Category: Canadian Poet
Type: Poet
National: Canadian

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I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of...

I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment...

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I find it exhausting to administer a magazine without an...

I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage...

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I have been told by a member of the board...

I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed,...

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If poetry alters the way in which the reader views...

In the past, poetry came in the form of spells...

Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too...

My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it...

No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader...

Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature...

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and...

Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it...

Reading should be a repeat performance....

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good...

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by...

The community of poets I belong to is not as...

The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write...

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in...

The point of an experiment is not to arrive at...

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To me many short poems read and write like beginnings...

We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know...

Who is the ideal reader? God only knows....

Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a...

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