Wrap me in your soft gray coat again

"Love Poem for November" by Antonia Clark

There is an intriguing tension in what Antonia Clark describes as her poetry writing practice of many years.

On the one hand, she is perfectly willing, accustomed, and happy to sit down to write with no idea of what she might create, or where it’s going to go. On the other, she is drawn, at least as often as not, to complex poetic forms that demand the …