Poet and author of A Woman’s Body is a Country, Dami Ajayi, wants you to keep writing. ‘That is the only meaningful advice really. Every other thing, you will learn on the blank page, the writer’s place.’
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What books or kinds of books did you read growing up?
I grew up reading pretty much anything I could lay my hands on. I finished the Holy Bible at least twice. Read tattered copies of my mother’s reading list at college. Thomas Hardy’s Tess o
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