To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.

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• Helen Dunmore:

  Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

• Helen Dunmore:

  The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I a

• Helen Dunmore:

  The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see

• Helen Dunmore:

  Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

• Helen Dunmore:

  My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.

• Helen Dunmore:

  Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. A

• Helen Dunmore:

  It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply

• Helen Dunmore:

  If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.

• Helen Dunmore:

  I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay.

• Helen Dunmore:

  I was always influenced by language.