
Andrew Motion Reads Alice Oswald
The New Yorker: Poetry
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Is There a Future for Poets?
I was imprinted by growing up in the countryside, as i think you did too. I'm struck by how extremely little i've written about living in cities. Certain patterns of behaviour that i noticed in my parents, sets of feelings that i had around my parents, em they were all i can't change them. They are absolutely the foundation of my writing. So do go back a lot to early stafphon and write about it.
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