Caroline Bird and Helen Mort
London Review Bookshop Podcast
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The Body Is the Theme and I Think You Should Be Writing About the Body
I was thinking about what is it that interests me about and of course it was body modification. That gave me the emblem of kind of the metaphor of the tattoo. I find it very hard to give if other writers ask me for like advice about structuring a collection or about when it's ready, because my answer is quite a lame or dispiriting answer. You've either got a wait or you've got to just like actively push and get disqualified from the book so keep on writing into the thing that you think you finished yeah until you realize that you haven't finished at all yes. Sometimes reading can be the unexpected like not even just poetry but you might I might want to read something
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