Caroline Bird and Helen Mort
London Review Bookshop Podcast
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How to Write a Poem That Looks OK
"I was quite bullied as a kid and my response to it was always, right, watch the kind of how do I write a poem that will simultaneously express my pain without making me feel exposed?" he says. "It is what I am constantly trying to do, I think. Why else would you write a poem when you could just say it plainly? Instead, you want to dip your truth in a kind of wax and hide it."
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