Pente poet – Lyn Browne
Having family in Brisbane gives Lyn the perfect excuse to avoid the grey English winter and travel from her home on the edge of Dartmoor to the Hinterland’s Blackall Range.
‘Summering’ with the Pente Poets has lead to a stimulating exchange of ideas, and Queensland’s wild landscape and weather are beginning to infiltrate Lyn’s poetry. From time to time other landscapes, and of course Devon, seep through.
Lyn writes because it’s something she needs to do. It’s the satisfaction of getting ‘the right words in the right order’. Besides the landscape, she writes about people she meets and things that happen. Often the poem will shift and twist and go off in a different direction. Sometimes she uses formal metre, other times she uses free verse with its own internal rhymes and chimes.
She likes to find the unexpected in a poem, thinks a good poem should surprise and also challenge. She enjoys the opaque, but doesn’t like a poem to be too much in awe of itself.
When she reads a new poem, even if she doesn’t understand it, she will ask herself ‘Will I remember this one?’ Lyn hopes people might remember just one or two of her own.
Having family in Brisbane gives Lyn the perfect excuse to avoid the grey English winter and travel from her home on the edge of Dartmoor to the Hinterland’s Blackall Range.
‘Summering’ with the Pente Poets has lead to a stimulating exchange of ideas, and Queensland’s wild landscape and weather are beginning to infiltrate Lyn’s poetry. From time to time other landscapes, and of course Devon, seep through.
Lyn writes because it’s something she needs to do. It’s the satisfaction of getting ‘the right words in the right order’. Besides the landscape, she writes about people she meets and things that happen. Often the poem will shift and twist and go off in a different direction. Sometimes she uses formal metre, other times she uses free verse with its own internal rhymes and chimes.
She likes to find the unexpected in a poem, thinks a good poem should surprise and also challenge. She enjoys the opaque, but doesn’t like a poem to be too much in awe of itself.
When she reads a new poem, even if she doesn’t understand it, she will ask herself ‘Will I remember this one?’ Lyn hopes people might remember just one or two of her own.