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Caroline Bird and Helen Mort

London Review Bookshop Podcast

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Poetry's Relationship to Truth

I always come back to that line of yours and that you read the poem today where I've forgotten the title now. But it's where you talk about writing the truth. Why don't you just write the truth? Yeah. And then it's like why? Yeah. It makes me think about sorry I know that was going to be the last question but I have one last question too if that's right. Is there a sense of like cumulative truth or is it that thing you said earlier about just the tattoo thing of like trying to get it right and not feeling like you've quite?"

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