British - Poet | December 12, 1952 - June 5, 2017
I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay.
Helen Dunmore
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I was always influenced by language.
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I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.
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I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us.
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I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.
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I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.
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I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing.
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I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.
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I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me.
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However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.
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However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.
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Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.
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