Caroline Bird and Helen Mort
London Review Bookshop Podcast
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The Illustrated Woman - A Poem About a Woman
I was originally going to call this collection fail-safe and various people pointed out to me that it sounded like I was quite literally setting myself up for failure. So this is that you'll know where exactly where this is, I think, failsay. Work out with me until the sky becomes the heat haze round fire and the image of a woman in intensive care is a pale girl painted by Vermeer. Give me a cigarette at the end of the line in the land of green ginger, lean towards me, so September's a tipped flame,. Let all this catch and take, sip lager from the days on steady glass, while colours fail above the humber dock then my words
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