Caroline Bird and Helen Mort
London Review Bookshop Podcast
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How Do You Suck?
I was interested in thinking about how do you know, how do you suck. I think we probably both started writing poetry at a similar age. Maybe like quite young but some of your poems when you are 15 and they completely stand the test of time. A lot of mine need to be like putting the mincer or the fire or something. But if I had published something I don't think I would ever kind of go oh that is not what I am writing now. How did it feel for you going back over like selecting from which poems stay and which poems? It was quite, it was like I was surprised by how like painful it was even though it is such a lucky thing to
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