The Cutting Room
Adam CairnsHow poems fail, named and dissected.
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The speaker contemplating: Again
Last week’s autopsy named #3 — Dusk dusk and a speaker who left one particular evening to state a property of all evenings, the pronoun sliding from I to you, the poem reaching outward for a universal it hadn’t earned. This week the poem fa...
The reach for the universal: Dusk, dusk
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Last week’s autopsy was a poem in which three failure modes converged on a single line — the launch post’s bonus disorder. This week is the more common case I’ll be putting on the slab: one failure mode, two...
I autopsy my own failed poems. Here is the first.
Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacine), Beaumaris Zoo, Hobart, Tasmania, 1933, David Howells Fleay
Most craft writing shows you a finished poem and asks you to admire it. The Cutting Room does the opposite — and the first draft on the slab is...
The Cutting Room - Introduction
The Cutting Room
Most writing about poetry is about how poems succeed. There are good teachers, and they have given me much of what I have. But the cuts you make in your own drafts — the lines you delete, the stanzas you remove, the whol...
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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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