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Marianne Eloise – Poet Interview

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A good interview. I agree with Mariane, one can not rely on poetry to pay the bills. Kevin

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Marianne Eloise

‘Cactus’

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Today we welcome Marianne Eloise to the Muse Shack. I found her debut poetry ‘Cactus’ enlightening, current, challenging and entertaining. It awoke in me, a fellow mover of places, some of the emotions and feelings of the author. I recommend this volume to all readers

Bio: Marianne Eloise is a UK-based writer, academic and journalist who works in the media. She loves pop culture, the coast, and 90s/00s trash aesthetics. Cactus is her debut poetry collection.

What inspires you to write poetry?

I don’t really get inspired as such, I’m just very motivated to write and work through my experiences. I also write in an attempt to preserve a place I’ve been or a particular time.

What is a measure of success as a poet?

I would consider myself successful if poetry was the only thing I needed to sustain my lifestyle, but I haven’t achieved that…

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Fleecem and Proper

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Said store owner Fleecem, to his assistant Proper
This metal here, it is but copper
But to the unwary shopper
‘Twill pass for gold
Let us be bold
And fleece ‘Em proper”!

But old Bill
The local copper
Nabbed those two, Fleecem and Proper!

Making the case for Exotic dancers…

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It is my proposition that a poet, or even some lesser writer, should be able to make a sound case for virtually anything. After all, if you are a writer, then you should be able to swiftly marshal the facts, array them in the most advantageous order, and unleash them upon the credulous community. Indeed, given that you are a writer, not a historian, then there is no obligation binding you to simply setting out facts. You are a writer, you can make things up, this is what writers do!

I like to visualise the writer as a craftsman with words as his tools. But in case you think this is a matter of high-flown rhetoric let me give you an example of how I prevented a most unseemly incident, made one man very happy and brought hours of simple pleasure to the patrons at one of Port Naain’s less…

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