Slender Underpinnings: Welsh Photopoetry and the Collaborative Imagination

There is a theory, writes poet John Fuller, that a successful collaboration essentially creates a third creative personality. In some ways a poem is a fulfilment of one aspect of the photograph that the poet has chosen to explore. It becomes a completion of one of the functions of that photograph. But of course there could be an infinity of those functions, and an infinity of poems. The one that gets written is the poet’s chosen feelings about the picture.