{"id":662,"date":"2001-12-01T21:12:13","date_gmt":"2001-12-01T21:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/?p=662"},"modified":"2022-09-21T21:21:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T21:21:55","slug":"jordie-albiston-in-conversation-with-kate-middleton-dec-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/2001\/12\/01\/jordie-albiston-in-conversation-with-kate-middleton-dec-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordie Albiston\u2014in conversation with Kate Middleton [Dec 2001]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KATE MIDDLETON<\/p>\n<p><em>Joan Didion once said of her novels that her first sentence has to be perfect, because everything grows from that, and once you&#8217;ve got your first paragraph written, there&#8217;s no going back.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>JORDIE ALBISTON<\/p>\n<p>I agree with her! And of course it&#8217;s more compressed with poetry &#8212; you&#8217;d be talking about your first word as important, your first phrase, and after your first sentence there being no going back&#8230; And it&#8217;s a question of respect as well, of honouring the poem. What is trying to come out on the page? You think in your head \u201cI want to write a poem in Italian quatrains\u201d or whatever, and you&#8217;ve a vague idea it&#8217;ll be about a page and a half long, and you want to cover this sort of ground, and that&#8217;s about all you start with &#8212; and then this completely different animal comes out of the computer, which has barely anything to do with your original idea, and you think \u201cWhere did that come from?\u201d&#8230; It comes down to respecting and honouring the poem itself. It&#8217;s the Michelangelo thing: chipping, tapping away, seeing what&#8217;s inside there, trying to help get it out.<\/p>\n<p>(from &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/INT-Albiston.html\">An interview with Jordie Albiston<\/a>&#8216;, &#8216;Famous Reporter #24&#8217;, 1st Dec 2001)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATE MIDDLETON Joan Didion once said of her novels that her first sentence has to be perfect, because everything grows from that, and once you&#8217;ve got your first paragraph written, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[101,103,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albiston-jordie","category-interviews","category-middleton-kate","entry entry-center"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}