Many thanks to Sheelagh Caygill for interviewing Chris Hutchinson about his newest poetry collection LOST SIGNAL on the On Creative Writing Podcast!
What life experiences have shaped your writing style?
I don’t think my life experiences have shaped my style, per se. My style is more likely tied to my own idiosyncratic sense of what’s weird, what’s ugly, what’s beautiful—my aesthetic instincts, in other words—and this is something I was probably born with. I think my style has been “shaped” primarily through reading—through internalizing the cadences, textures, and tonal palettes of the various ‘Englishes’ I’ve encountered and swooned over in my literary predecessors.
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