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#54 Laura Dockrill (Poet & Author) - You Don’t Have To Be One Thing

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Laura Dockrill is a performance poet, author, illustrator and short story writer. She is the author of the Darcy Burdock series and a YA novel, Lorali with a follow up book coming out this year. She has also written a number of adult poetry collections. "My Mum is a Grown Down" is her first poetry collection for children about a wild, hysterical and hilarious Mum, which is coming in July this year. The Independent calls her “A poet for the iPod generation” and Red magazine's “literary girl crush”. We met up at the Hoxton Hotel, lay on a bed chatting about creativity, comparison, finding new ideas, writing and being in love with your work.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to Control Alt Delete. This is the first episode of 2017, which is very exciting.

0:06.0

I just wanted to say thank you so much for all of your support in 2016 and subscribing to this podcast.

0:12.0

It's been an amazing year for

0:14.2

podcast and I'm just so happy that people enjoy listening to this one.

0:18.0

So thank you. I've got so much in store for 2017, so many more

0:22.0

episodes and so many more incredible guests, so stay tuned.

0:26.0

So today's guest is amazing.

0:27.8

I am so excited to bring this to your ears.

0:30.7

There is no one quite like this guest.

0:33.0

Laura Docrill is a performance poet, an author, an illustrator and a short story writer.

0:38.0

She is the author of the hugely popular Darcy Bur dock series, and she recently wrote a YA novel called Lorelei

0:44.4

and there's a follow-up book coming out this year so you keep your eye out for that.

0:47.7

She has also written a number of adult poetry collections and her first poetry collection

0:51.8

for children is out in July this year. It's called

0:54.4

My Mum is a Grown Down and it's about a world hysterical and hilarious mum.

0:59.1

The Independent call her a poet for the iPod generation and Red magazine call her their literary

1:04.9

girl crush. She's just full of creativity and joy and energy and we met up at the

1:09.9

Hoxton Hotel, lay on the bed chatting about comparison and finding new ideas, writing, working

1:16.1

with children and being in love with your work.

1:19.3

I think this is a very inspiring episode, Laura is the best and I hope you enjoy it here it is Okay, so I'm here with Laura Docrill. Thank you for inviting me in our velvet.

1:37.0

So we're both wearing velvet first of all, which we're very happy about.

1:40.0

And we both arrived in fur coats that could be sofers.

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