Sheer power of a great poem is enough to guarantee that it will ultimately make itself felt ,if the reader is in a receptive mood. - Dennis O'Driscoll

All poets face the same task to 'follow the prompts' and satisfactorily shape the amorphous sounds, rhythms, images or phrases by which a potential poem is recognised.

Interview, Mark Thwaite, 12th August 2005, 'Ready Steady Books for literature'

There is no one way 'correct' way of becoming a writer. The very quirks and eccentricities which a workshop will probably discourage may in fact be the aspiring writer's most valuable capital in the longer term. Would be literary Samsons should be wary of enrolling in a hairdressing school.