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Andrew Motion Reads Alice Oswald

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Is There a Binding for Dead Poets?

I was almost inexpressibly relieved to give it up. There is spect for poetry, but there's much more respect for dead poets than there is for living ones. I hope i did manage to do some good things with it, but i was very pleased to give itup. It's extremely difficult to look at things when you feel looked at. That's what it came down to for me.

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