Nov 1, 2024
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 poetry
- The way that every line, every word counts in each of them
- Thoughts on what intuition really is as opposed to what many people think it is
- The importance of having to know the rules before you break them and how that works in both divination and writing
- How 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 life
- Her mother being a magical thinker and the influence her mother had on Liz
- Certain lines and ideas that would come to Liz as she was going out on regular walks
- Filling up a notebook she had found on the curb with these ideas and poems
- The way a lot of writing happens for Liz not while she's sitting at her desk, but out walking or doing other things
- How every piece of writing can have its own energy and have a life of its own that helps guide you when creating it
- The unique interpretations that different readers can apply to a piece of writing
- The recent popularity in horror-adjacent poetry
- Remembering that poetry can be rebellious and that it doesn't have to be academic or dry
- The process of putting the book of poetry together and then pitching it to a publisher
- The joy of working with a publisher like Book Hug Press
- The type of light editing that happens with a book of poetry
- Specific placement of poems within the book
- A bit behind the title poem "Inside Every Dream, a Raging Sea"
- Some of the themes that appear in the collection
- What Liz is working on now
- Advice Liz would offer to anyone wanting to try their hand at poetry
- And more...
Links of Interest:
- Liz Worth's Website
- Book Hug Press
- Episode 387 - Vulnerability in Writing....with Liz Worth
- One Hand Screaming: 20 Haunting Years
- Mark's Stark Reflections on Writing & Publishing Newsletter (Signup)
- Buy Mark a Coffee
- Patreon for Stark Reflections
- An Author's Guide to Working With Bookstores and Libraries
- The Relaxed Author
- Publishing Pitfalls for Authors
- An Author's Guide to Working with Libraries & Bookstores
- Wide for the Win
- Mark's Canadian Werewolf Books
- The Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and Automobiles
- Yippee 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