Long exposure

When writers, artists, composers or craftsmen create something new, they are adding to the world’s store of material that will keep their memory alive, and so buying into their own immortality. When another such person comes along, a week, a year or a millennium later, and produces something that reflects on the original creators or their creations, we are presented with another reminder, a fresh slant on their immortality.

Honouring somebody else in a poem provides you with the opportunity to indulge in some fascinating research, then to sift and select what you will use and how you will use it. It’s an absorbing task to pick one aspect of the creative person’s life and