When she was a young girl, Sharon Olds told an audience at Ledbury poetry festival, she knew God could read her thoughts. But for some reason she believed He could not look over her shoulder, and see what she was writing. Even now, she said, perhaps as a way of keeping God in the dark, “I don’t know what I’m thinking, unless I’m writing.” Last year Olds won the TS Eliot prize with Stag’s Leap, a c...

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