‘I like short sentences. Really short sentences. Like these. As a lad I liked the writing of Ernest Hemingway, and he was the king (or the president, I guess) of the short sentence. In recent years, another American story writer, Raymond Carver, has taken up the baton of the short sentence, and in a lot of her early poems the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy used to utilise the one-word sentence…
‘There’s power in the short sentence though… it can pack a punch and I recommend it to any writers to have a go…’