- Purity of line and space
- Rough surface texture
- Work on the vertical
- Underlying sense of weight
- Immediacy – title impact
- Resist the metaphor
- Reject classical references
- Saxon words before Latinate
- Limit adjectives / adverbs
- Narrative-driven
- Free and Blank verse
- Contains a strand of gold
- Anti-heroic
- Artist lives the life
- Contradictions exist
