Uploaded July 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Also featuring her poetry and an update on how the reading rush is going for me. Generally I think Ocean Vuong could learn a lot from a fellow poet like Helen Mort on how to write novels...

Have you read Helen Mort, or heard of her? And what do you think of poets who branch out to write novels. Do you think they are sellouts, or do you think there is nothing at all to be considered when reading a poet's novel, as opposed to a general fiction-writer's novel?

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