Is poetry a vanishing literary type?
No. I’m confident that poetry will survive and remain in its various forms, both traditional and contemporary, as long as there are creative poets, because the relationship between man and poetry reaches back to pre-history when there was only the spoken word, and the Arabic people have a particular affinity to it. What will be the importance and place of poetry in the future is something I am however, unable to define. What is your source of inspiration? Seeing the reality of life gives me the opportunity to grab details from it to craft my poetry. I don’t confine myself to a specific style and my subjects are wide ranging, poetry is for all things true. If I write a sentimental poem, I need to understand and put into context feelings and emotions in a particular situation. How did you grow as a poet? Since childhood, my language teachers were impressed with the way I expressed myself. As a teenager, I was highly sensitive and very different from my schoolfriends. I seemed to have a d
