Damien has to wear pedal pushes and put his feet in a bowl of cold water. This is indicative of the strange things that writers often do, he says. I work in a green chair because it's my lucky colour. And I'm very particular about where I write - I can't write in cafes or on trains. Raina Maria Wilker's Letters to a Young Poet reminds me of the importance of working from the self outwards.

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