• EP 386 - Inside Every Poem, a Raging Sea of Writerly Advice with Liz Worth

  • Nov 1 2024
  • Length: 48 mins
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EP 386 - Inside Every Poem, a Raging Sea of Writerly Advice with Liz Worth

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  • Mark interviews Liz Worth about her new poetry book Inside Every Poem, A Raging Sea. Mark skips the regular introductory matter to skip right to the interview. In their interview Mark and Liz talk about: How the book is about p laying with the idea of the cross-over or similarities between spell-writing and poetryThe way that every line, every word counts in each of themThoughts on what intuition really is as opposed to what many people think it isThe importance of having to know the rules before you break them and how that works in both divination and writingHow a lot of the poems in this collection were written in the depths of the pandemic when things were closed down, as well as when Liz's mother was living with dementia and in the last years of her lifeHer mother being a magical thinker and the influence her mother had on LizCertain lines and ideas that would come to Liz as she was going out on regular walksFilling up a notebook she had found on the curb with these ideas and poemsThe way a lot of writing happens for Liz not while she's sitting at her desk, but out walking or doing other thingsHow every piece of writing can have its own energy and have a life of its own that helps guide you when creating itThe unique interpretations that different readers can apply to a piece of writingThe recent popularity in horror-adjacent poetryRemembering that poetry can be rebellious and that it doesn't have to be academic or dryThe process of putting the book of poetry together and then pitching it to a publisherThe joy of working with a publisher like Book Hug PressThe type of light editing that happens with a book of poetrySpecific placement of poems within the bookA bit behind the title poem "Inside Every Dream, a Raging Sea"Some of the themes that appear in the collectionWhat Liz is working on nowAdvice Liz would offer to anyone wanting to try their hand at poetryAnd more... Links of Interest: Liz Worth's Website Instagram Book Hug PressEpisode 387 - Vulnerability in Writing....with Liz WorthOne Hand Screaming: 20 Haunting Years Books2Read Link Mark's Stark Reflections on Writing & Publishing Newsletter (Signup)Buy Mark a CoffeePatreon for Stark Reflections How to Access Patreon RSS Feeds An Author's Guide to Working With Bookstores and LibrariesThe Relaxed Author Buy eBook DirectBuy Audiobook Direct Publishing Pitfalls for AuthorsAn Author's Guide to Working with Libraries & BookstoresWide for the WinMark's Canadian Werewolf Books This Time Around (Short Story)A Canadian Werewolf in New YorkStowe Away (Novella)Fear and Longing in Los AngelesFright Nights, Big CityLover's MoonHex and the CityOnly Monsters in the Building The Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and AutomobilesYippee Ki-Yay Motherf*cker: A Trivia Guide to Die Hard Liz Worth is a poet, novelist and nonfiction writer. She is a two-time nominee for the ReLit Award for Poetry for her books The Truth is Told Better This Way and No Work Finished Here: Rewriting Andy Warhol. Her first book, Treat Me Like Dirt, was the first of its kind to provide an in-depth history of southern Ontario’s first wave punk movement. Her new poetry book, Inside Every Dream, a Raging Sea is published through Book*hug Press. The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast (“Laser Groove”) was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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