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Jan 2021
52m 28s

Wahmanholm, Redmouth

Michael Lavers
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Sarah, Janaya and I swoon over Claire Wahmanholm's Redmouth, and talk about surprises in poetry, and things like diction, mystery, white space, erasure poetry, how to convey emotions and ideas through images and sounds, how living poets should relate to the tradition, and much more. 

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