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| Interview with Helen Dunmore by Debbie Taylor HELEN DUNMORE seems calm and serene, yet I found talking to her energising. Her view of the creative world is so pragmatic, she makes you feel anything is possible provided you keep going in the right direction. She uses the word ‘professional’ a lot when referring to her career. And it’s clear that, though she loves what she does, she sees writing as a job that earns a living. It’s an attitude that seems at odds with the work itself. But she would argue that there is no such thing as ‘the work itself’. The book reviewing she does, her ‘hungry’ reading, the tours and interviews, the admin., the ‘three thousand emails’, travelling to Morocco for the British Council, these are all ‘the work’ a professional author must do to support - and nourish - her writing. She even ‘goes to work’ in the morning: to a sunny Sixties bedsit with pastel décor, geraniums on the balcony and a view to die for over the city of Bristol. It contains a bed and a desk. Books. IT equipment. That’s all. No sofa or armchairs, so we talk in a big noisy arts café nearby. Here she’s solicitous, queuing up for our coffee and carrot cake, enquiring how Mslexia is progressing. She proffers a quality of attention, an approachability, that is partly inherent niceness… For the whole interview, read Issue 15 » Subscribe! Go to » Helen Dunmore's Method |
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For more on HELEN DUNMORE, go to www.contemporarywriters.com
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