There’s a little bit of your brain that mourns and grieves that you’re not writing poetry, but actually as long as I’m writing something, I’m happy.

A hope of something beyond our place and time. This is what books – the best books – give us: a lifeline, a reason to believe, a way to breathe more freely.
BLAKE MORRISON

Believe Book Giving
There’s a little bit of your brain that mourns and grieves that you’re not writing poetry, but actually as long as I’m writing something, I’m happy.
BLAKE MORRISON

Happy Little Mourns Poetry Something Write
Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren’t the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too.
BLAKE MORRISON

Editing Knives Surgeons Writing
At times of crisis or distress, it’s poems that people turn to. (Poetry) still has a power to speak to people’s feelings, maybe in a way that fiction, because it works in a longer way, can’t.
BLAKE MORRISON

Grieving Long Writing

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