'Writing is an act of exploration'

Clare Azzopardi interviews Leanne Ellul on her latest poetry collection, L-Inventarju tal-Kamra l-Kaħla. A poet, a colleague, a friend. Leanne Ellul is all of this and much more. Together we have created a whole scheme of textbooks for the primary years, and now we are writing a whole new world of ghosts for the young. We have organised talks, literary events, festivals and managed numerous projects, some of which are still going steady. We discuss what we teach and how best to teach it, what we write and how to write it better. We dream continuously about new and upcoming projects, about poems and stories, plots and characters … and have endless conversations about anything from cooking to nonsense writing, to politics, to pain and white poems. Here are a few thoughts from an inventory I’ve specifically created for her after reading L-Inventarju tal-Kamra l-Kaħla (The Blue Room Inventory). Please note that the entries here are not in alphabetical order but you can choose to read them either way.  On writing slow or fast, little or too much …You write rapidly and you write a lot. Is this an unfair statement about you and your writing? It is not. I tend to think really quickly,...