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hightide poets copyright Judith Chesney
:: The first time an idea strikes you is a conception, then it develops into a pregnancy through its stages and developments. That's the way with arts, there are very rare occasions when a piece comes into the world fully formed - these could be called immaculate conceptions - usually it is a case of snatching an opportunity mid-air as it whizzes past in life's gale, seizing it, having the tenacity to work at it, only giving up if it really dies in your hands. It can even go into a state of coma, subconsciously filed in the mind, maybe to revive at some unexpected time. When the poem becomes a full and living thing it can move out to the world, towards many horizons. Who can say what other lives it will fertilise? ::
Hightide poets are a creative writing community group who welcome all and celebrate diversity. The group meets weekly on Mondays at 2pm in the Green Room at Quay Arts, Newport, Isle of Wight. Hightide poets are sponsored by The Southern Co-operatives Foundation Enter