"I write mainly for performance, so reading aloud is a big part of my editing process" - Jacqui Malins reflects on Poetry Object 2019

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The model name of my tent is ‘Citadel’, very grand for a tent you can’t stand up in! But it is light enough for me to carry hiking on my own, and I love that freedom. I have just had ‘the Citadel’ patched so we can keep travelling together. While writing, I adopted, and then abandoned, a structure of a regular number of syllables in each line – it helped me to tighten this poem, but eventually became unhelpful. I write mainly for performance, so reading aloud is a big part of my editing process.