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John Harrison – Why I Write

Illustration by Fran Pulido of two books that look like open books next to a microphone.

24 September, 2020
John Harrison

I copied any skill I admired, including knitting and skipping, which worried my father for a while. Then I wrote a poem. I copied any skill I admired, including knitting and skipping, which worried my father for a while; I made model aircraft in ships, and something existed which hadn’t before. Then I wrote a poem.

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