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2) How do you bring your innovative, radical, and challenging poetry to an
audience who are use to its traditional and conventional forms?

Whatever I have done in my life I have always done it “my way” and poetry is no

exception. I believe that there should be new ways of doing everything. I see it as a duty
as a writer to challenge the norm, status quo, what has gone before. I seem to have the
ability to do that and I have forged new ways of stating my case in this respect. Poetry is

a way of expressing and I have taken confessional to a whole new, raw level, beyond
what most writers, readers or listeners are used to. I bring my work to audiences not

just by conventional poetry collections and I refuse to be part of that archaic system
that poets subscribe to. I made it clear from the start in my epic poem “The Panjandrum
of Quondam” that “I will never conform to lyrical dictatorship”!

So, I record my work, adding music and

sound effects in collaboration with
composers, DJs, and now I am branching out

into working with choreographers and artists
to give the works an organic life and
unlimited atmosphere. I like my work to

caress the souls of an audience in multiple
ways, but also to shake life into them and

know for sure that after listening to my work
they go home and my work remains with
them and that is proving these

unconventional ways are giving it much more
life and it is gaining more international

interest than ever. I am totally separate from
the poetry fraternity and the archaic rules
about how poetry can be marketed and

given a place in the world. I work to the beat
of my own drum and to the call of my soul

and the highest calling in life.

3) What most challenging obstacles have you faced to get this far in your career?

“Too long I have been walking a tightrope riddled with razor
blades.” Copyright C.Swan-All rights reserved
Poetry is probably the toughest type of writing anyone could choose to do. To survive as a

poet/writer I have experienced periods of homelessness, living in freezing squalor in a
shack with no heating, lighting and or running water, writing by candle light and generally

leading a very meagre way of life in the past.