The Cutting Room
Adam CairnsHow poems fail, named and dissected.
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The slab opens to your work
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The turn this publication made — the shift from whether a poem succeeds to what it was reaching for — changed what the slab can hold. Once that is the question, the reading is no longer a verdict h...
The same knife, the other room
Everything I do here — the named failure of reach, the reversible cut, the line I protect at all costs — I have been doing for longer than this publication has existed, and not only to poems.
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Moss on the unspoken
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This post is out of the usual sequence - one post each week on Monday. The reason is this:
I want to demonstrate what the revised approach I will be taking from now on will look like...
What the poem was reaching for
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For seven posts now, the operative question of this publication has been what is wrong with this draft. I put a poem on the slab — usually one of my own — named the failure mode, made the cut, and...
The cadence decided what the climb meant before I did
Two tercets in, the poem is climbing in borrowed boots — the rising three-line music of the mountain-poem — and the cadence has already decided what the climb means before the climb has happened.
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I write The Cutting Room (craft and diagnosis for poets) and Beyond Solitude (personal essays and poetry). Chair Ledbury Poetry.
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