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Andrew Motion Reads Alice Oswald

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The Idea of Negative Capacity

Andrew Blake's new book of poems is called 'The Water Song' It was inspired by a conversation he had with poet john kets. He says the idea that you are capable of subduing your own personality, seems to him an ideal. And so i have spent all my life frerly trying to find ways of doing that it.

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