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Any writer who thinks I’ve ruined their work in performance.
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To my dad for not making it back to Birmingham to see him while I was in London doing The Streets.
My housemate, because I keep shrinking his jumpers in the wash.
I think that’s a thesis.
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To my mum; I wish I’d known her better before she passed in 2016.
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I’ve been to two postmortems in real life, and spent the last 14 years talking about death at work – so, pretty close.
I would like the poem Cherish by Raymond Carver. It was read by my dad at my wedding, and is my absolute favourite.
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