In the first of these articles we looked at why you wanted to be a poet, and this was the beginning: you have chosen to write poetry rather than prose. You have a reason for this, and as part of that you have decided who your audience is. A basic principle is that you must make sense even if in the development of your work you then rise above it You will be judged not only by your audience, but by the poet over your shoulder and by the different poet who is yourself at a future time.

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