tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8249999112430764239.post8649134605605611482..comments2023-05-28T16:12:22.977+03:00Comments on Wee Fictions: What's The Big Deal About Poetry?Andrew McCallum Crawfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10741474262548635774noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8249999112430764239.post-20200172376562582722011-06-13T13:29:47.197+03:002011-06-13T13:29:47.197+03:00Clarity is not something most people associate wit...Clarity is not something most people associate with poetry, indeed it’s something that a great many avoid preferring ambiguity to stating things plainly. To my mind the great thing about poetry is that it requires the involvement of the reader to a far greater extent than prose and several times in my novels I’ve included lines from poems, in fact my last novel ends on a poem.<br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.com