Roger Dennis has recently won the National Poetry competition and his poem, Corkscrew Hill,  is on my Featured Writer’s page. Until now I thought of him as an artist and I’ve heard from several people that he is a great art tutor: he lives in Ashburton which is my main shopping town. I love his paintings which seem very diverse in style and tone.  I really didn’t know he wrote and it seems this was the first poem he sent out into the world.  It’s the kind of miracle everyone would dream of!

I took advantage of knowing him to ask him a few questions about the enigmatic poem and his writing ….

Q1.  What is the relationship between your writing and your art?

 
I can see that this is naturally one of the first questions people have when they realise I both paint and write, but…