
Emily Dickinson
Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast
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The Assassin Hidden in Our Apartment
i'm going to give you a sort of thing from my life which i think throws some light on Emily Dickinson's before i became a professional comedian. I don't think Emily had a space where she could be a full-on poet except that room that she hid herself in and what i think is that everything became poetry for Emily like me she needed some sort of an audience poems had been it seemed rejected by the outside world here's an example here's if you look at quotes for Emily Dickinson you often see this one and i mean no wonder it is a beauty i am out with lanterns searching for myself now that is a brilliant image i think.
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