Shannon Eilis Doherty

I’ll be honest with you, when I’m writing a poem, I almost never think about my target audience. In fact, I never think about who my target audience is. Sure, I did think about who I was writing for when I was a student at university, but only because we were tasked with doing so in order to analyse our own writing. I’ve always written poetry with myself as the sole target audience to please. Maybe it’s because I’m a Virgo, but satisfying my own rigid and slightly neurotic ego is at the...

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I remember back when I was four years old in nursery, and my favourite time of the day was when we would do arts and crafts. Every single...