Caroline Bird and Helen Mort
London Review Bookshop Podcast
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The Order of Her Book
I think there's roving mind how much do you have a collection idea in mind when you write like how does it affect sort of recurring themes in your poems. I used to not think about that at all like the last two collections I thought about it a tiny bit more but generally only once I've got like 30 poems and you start kind of looking at them. It came out of a bit of a conflicted process in a way because I thought the book was finished and then my editor at Chateau read it and she was really perceptive spot on comments. You know the kind of comments the editors make that you almost dread them because it means work Like a lot of animal try yeah
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