Alex in conversation with Di Cousens, recalling an early poetry submission….<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of my very first submissions was from Sydney. It was to \u2018Poetry Australia\u2019, and at that time Les Murray was editing. I sent a bundle of poems representing those early ten years of my poetry writing but towards the later phase of that, poems I thought were good enough to try to submit. And Les Murray eventually sent back the bundle of poems with a wonderful comment, he said \u2018I can’t quite like these enough, though there are felicities here\u2019. That was in one way a rejection but in another it was encouragement. And I didn’t take it as a rejection, because I knew I had a fair way to go and I needed to refine not only what I was writing but my whole approach to poetry if I wanted to be serious about it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n [3CR, the Spoken Word Show, 19th May 2022]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alex in conversation with Di Cousens, recalling an early poetry submission…. \u201cOne of my very first submissions was from Sydney. It was to \u2018Poetry Australia\u2019, and at that time Les … Continue reading “Alex Skovron on 3CR this morning”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[75,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversations-interviews","category-skovron-alex"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t