I start (and finish) nearly all of my poems at the screen. The only time I write stuff down is when I am in bed. I never have poetic thoughts when I am out walking - too busy puffing and blowing, though I do compose when swimming. Then I just remember it until I get home. Since all my poems rhyme and scan they are pretty easy to remember.
I've had trouble completing the survey. The thing just sort of disappears. I don't know why.
Who was it wrote his poems on the cardbaord inserts of fag packets? You'd need the old ones which haven't beeen around for thirty years at least.
Auden? MacNeice? Auden was an Olympic smoker.
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