"We very readily cease to see the world we live in, and become anaesthetised to it's distinctive features. The aim of poetry is to reverse that process, to defamiliarise that with which we are overly familiar... to indicate a new childlike, non-jaded vision in us. The poet aims to disrupt..."

T Hawkes

"I wish this story were different. I wish it were more civilized. I wish it showed me in a better light... I'm sorry there is so much pain in this story...it hurts me to tell it over, over again. Once was enough: wasn't once enough for me at the time? But I keep on going with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear it, as I will hear yours too if I ever get the chance, if I meet you or if you escape, in the future or in Heaven or in prison or underground, some other place. What they have in common is that they're not here. By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are."

Margaret Atwood

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