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Time Lived Without Its Flow: Denise Riley, Max Porter, Emily Berry

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The Enduring Life of a Poet

Do you feel that the early poems haunt the late ones or is that just anyone's work? No, no, but a very ordinary one as well. I mean the annoying thing is that you put so much bloody effort into the writing and then they are outrageous enough to stay bloody dead after all that work. What do they think they're changed? I was going to confess to you both on email but I'll confess it in front of all these bastards as well. The kind of architecture of physicality of it and how you are already even in your early poems very self-conscious about the ingratitude and things like that. And then that provides an extraordinary and very moving consistency with

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