Caroline Bird and Helen Mort
London Review Bookshop Podcast
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How Do You Write Poems About Pregnancy?
I was trying to write some poems about pregnancy and childbirth and early motherhood. The thing I really struggled with is that kind of self-consciousness it's that I opened in the oven door Thing where I just kept thinking to myself this has been done before, she says. It's almost like you've still got to juggle no matter how precious the objects that you're holding become. She adds: "It's going to be the same so like yeah even if you feel like you're literally holding some babies you've got to juggled"
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