FinnyH

So, hey! Just a few questions about your current works that I was interested in. I hope you don't mind me asking, but I found them very inspiring and the unsettling themes of them were right up my street.
          
          I wanted to know if you had a favourite poem of your own and what it is about it that makes it your favourite.
          
          I especially liked the more surreal ones (Frankenstein Orchard is probably my favourite) and wondered if you had planned to pen any more that dip into that surreal/disturbing sorta theme.
          
          Lastly, I wondered: if you could pick a single poem to be adapted into a story, which would you pick? Your works show a snapshot of something larger, and despite their brevity they tell a lot. That's pretty neat.
          
          I'm not much of a poet (my experience in poetry is limited to humour and parody) but I've really enjoyed your collections. :)

MyraLevitt

@FinnyH I'm so glad you like them. And I'm especially happy that you like the surreal stuff, because I was a little nervous about posting them :)
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FinnyH

@MyraLevitt It's been a pleasure! I definitely enjoyed Nightmare too. Some of them stuck out to me; funny you should also mention the other one that did, Amateur Cartographer.
            
            I really think you've got something here for everyone, something that will stick with them. And what I like best about the surreal ones is that it's refreshing that they don't have a message to convey and instead just excite the synapses with imagination, or a literary window into a vaster world. I'm really taken by that idea. :)
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MyraLevitt

@FinnyH 
            
            Hello! Thanks for all of the detailed feedback - it was so much fun to read.
            
            I'd say Nightmare is my current favourite. I was hesitant to post that one, along with some of the other surreal ones, because I'm not sure they entirely make sense/can be tied down to any sort of concrete meaning. But I definitely have the most fun writing those because they feel so alien.
            
            (So yes, hopefully lots more surreal poetry to come!)
            
            Tough question! I also write fiction, so I think that if I thought of an idea for a story instead of a poem, I'd probably just write it that way from the outset. But I'd probably choose Amateur Cartographers, because I enjoy stories about people moving to new places and exploring them.
            
            Thanks for all the encouragement!
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