Caroline Bird and Helen Mort
London Review Bookshop Podcast
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How Do You Write a Poem?
A lot of the poems in there often they'll be circling around, you've done, had to use some research, inspired by an article or something. But how do you keep that sense of that you're still searching for something while you're writing despite having some research next to you? How do you balance it in it? Yeah, it's tricky to do. I found again and again with this kind of work when I was writing about some of the stories of like early female climbers and the Alps... There's so much good storytelling and good research that just doesn't really make for the best poems. It's not because it's not a card. It's a finished thought. Yes
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