Paula Bohince and
Tarn MacArthur, the latest in the online Behind the Poem series in which poets reflect on the inspiration and development of one or more of their poems in
The Poetry Review.
Review, was sparked by a story in her local newspaper in Pennsylvania, about a fire that had been burning for fifty years in the closed coal mines beneath people’s homes. Its final extinction, she says, “felt a little outrageous, and dipping into that emotion let me similarly roam in the writing process”.
Review, similarly wanders into its making, as he describes his time spent uncovering his family’s associations with St Kilda. His ancestral home inspires both myth and elegy.