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'It doesn't mean you have to publish it'

2 March 2015

‘Just because you write a poem, it doesn't mean you have to publish it. If I'm just writing because I happen to have had an idea, I'm completely free to write it, fiddle around with it, take as long as I like, and then I can decide quite a long time afterwards what I want to do with it. There's a freedom in that.'

Wendy Cope, author of Family Values and Life, Love and the Archers, in the Observer magazine