Monday, 18 July 2022

Katherine Lawrence : part five

What poets changed the way you thought about writing?

Margaret Atwood. I first read You Are Happy when I wasn’t. It was 1974 and I was 19 years old. I’d been scribbling poems but I remember how her voice, her images, her subjects woke me up. Atwood’s work emboldened me. I began to pay closer attention. Her work taught me how to be an observant writer.

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