Poetry quote - Jo Shapcott

I was inspired by this quote from Jo Shapcott, commenting on how ideas become poems:

‘A lot of things jostle in my notebook, things that I have overheard, or 

heard about. In all the jostling are ideas that can link, form 

a new kind of emotional truth, a different kind of truth than just 

simply the facts.'

Notebooks can be invaluable to writers. Image by DvortyGirl

Shapcott's poetry collection Of Mutability (review here) won the Costa Book of the Year, 2010. She is President of the Poetry Society, and teaches on the MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. 

Source of quote: The Telegraph Newspaper.

The Man and the Book by D.N.A. Morris

Nice bit of flash fiction by a contemporary American author.  It's a simple but engaging scenario - a man is inspired to think by something he has read, but gets distracted.  Then - as will be all too familiar to authors out there - by the time he thinks of it again, the idea has gone.

Not sure why it refers to a 'typewriter' as it is not otherwise obviously historical, but other than that I thought it was very well-written.

"It was just before dawn when the man finished the book and slipped it back in its jacket and placed it gently on his nightstand. He looked at it lovingly then walked to his window..."

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