What do you love about writing verse novels?
I love the brevity and compression of working with verse. You can say so much in so few words. I love the fact that verse novels allow for experimentation and there’s a multitude of poetic elements you can use if you choose to. I also love the fragmentation, the white space, the gaps between the poems and that sense of leaping from one scene to another. I just find writing in verse such an interesting and challenging form to work in. The other thing I like is that poetry can convey a lot of emotion in a very short space and can be used to explore difficult and confronting subjects and experiences in a way that is not overly confronting or overwhelming.