Robert Berold Quotes
born 1948 South Africa
Robert Berold (born 1948) is a South African poet, editor and author.
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I think of it as an archive of poetry of this time that will still be readable in 20 or 50 years.
I find it fulfilling to work with good writers and help them get their work out.
Poets develop quite early a strong instinct to find and hear poetry that nourishes them.
The internet is a great resource for poetry, and there is so much going on there.
Publishing risky innovative work hasn’t been that difficult.
I really do believe a book finds its readers, eventually.
It is language in its fullest, most expressive, form.
I’d rather put my energy into getting a text as good as it can be.
I’m biased towards image, viscerality, physicality, musicality, plain language, and old-fashioned modernism.
Ultimately I can only publish work I feel to be engaging and moving.
My aim was, and still is, to publish the poetry I like.
But I will carry on editing poetry, I enjoy it.
“I want to keep to English and the South African variations of English.