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Joan Hambidge Quotes

born 1956 South Africa

Joan Hambidge (born 11 September 1956) is South African poet, literary theorist and academic. She is a prolific poet in the Afrikaans language.

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If you read widely you cannot avoid the work of other writers permeating your work.

I try as a writer, to simply get on with the act of writing.

I do think on one level it’s simply unavoidable.

I’m trained as a graphic designer, so in some respects I’m a visual person first. For me, the visual shape a poem assumes on paper is critical to the creative process.

It’s a strange landscape. Polemics, if you could call it that, sometimes verges on the prescriptive, and at other times seems rather conservative.

The threat of violence is pervasive.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joan Hambidge (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.