{"id":19,"date":"2017-07-03T13:44:05","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T13:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/03\/poetic-interviews-line-breaks-of-questioning\/"},"modified":"2022-08-03T22:42:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T21:42:14","slug":"poetic-interviews-line-breaks-of-questioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/03\/poetic-interviews-line-breaks-of-questioning\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetic Interviews: Line breaks of questioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/f69d8824436ef506c82d51a415818db7\/tumblr_inline_osioymXxMd1sfm2k4_540.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white image of a lamp shining down onto a plastic kangaroo in an interrogative manner.\"\/><\/figure><p><em><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brokensleepbooks.com\/product-page\/poetic-interviews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Poetic Interviews<\/a><\/b><\/em> comes from a brilliantly simple idea: why not interview poets using poetry?<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GodzillaKent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aaron Kent<\/a>, Editor-in-Chief at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brokensleepbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Broken Sleep Books<\/a>, and Chief Poetic Interviewer, corners poets, asks them questions in verse and gets poetic responses back from the writers. The results are playful, revealing and spontaneous, and show the artistic side of both the interviewer and writer. Speaking from the writer\/interviewee seat, even though Kent does not demand a form, I felt the constraints of the format were just as helpful as if I\u2019d had a form to work to.<\/p><p>Poetic Interviews has spoken to a huge range of poets, from <b>Theophilus Kwek<\/b> to <b>Jane Commane<\/b>, and the original online project was shortlisted for a <a href=\"http:\/\/sabotagereviews.com\/2017\/04\/03\/saboteur-awards-2017-the-shortlist-and-longlist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017 Saboteur Award<\/a>. It\u2019s an invigorating format and one that guarantees that the writer does not fall back on stock answers.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brokensleepbooks.com\/product-page\/poetic-interviews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buy the book now<\/a> and get inside our weird little heads.<\/p><p>Folks to Follow:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/godzillakent\">Aaron Kent<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/brokensleep\">Broken Sleep Books<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Kent, Editor of Broken Sleep Books, conducts unusual interviews: the questions and answers take the form of poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,93],"tags":[23,92,21,9,22,4],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-critical-writing","category-poetry-projects","tag-aaron-kent","tag-broken-sleep-books","tag-interview","tag-kirsten-irving","tag-poetic-interviews","tag-poetry","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}