George Szirtes, Judge of the The William Blake Poetry Prize 2015, talks about the entries

George Szirtes, Judge of the The William Blake Poetry Prize 2015, talks about the entries

You can’t imitate genius you can only quarrel with it. That sounds almost convincing, doesn’t it? Well, not quite. You can send it up, use it as a platform, nail a reference to it, breathe it in slowly like a heady scent, or fill your tank with it like a high-octane fuel. Genius is what Basil Bunting wrote about on the fly leaf of Pound’s Cantos; There are the Alps. What is there to say... read more »