Helen Mort, the five-time winner of the Foyle Young Poets award, discusses her creative process in an interview with Granta.
“I’m visited by an idea that won’t go away and I often carry it around for months. The shapes of poems seem to bother me…The best poem is always the one you’re nearly-but-not quite writing.”
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