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Mira Gonzalez’s poems are quietly defining texts of the digital era

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The young poet has become unwittingly involved in a social media stir about Lily Allen’s marriage. What’s all the fuss about?

It was the Instagram image that launched a thousand rumours. Three weeks ago, Lily Allen posted a picture of her hand hovering over a poetry collection called i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together, by the American poet Mira Gonzalez. If Allen was simply hoping to alert her followers to a recent book discovery, it was a misfire. The tabloid press jumped on the gesture, reading it as the next in a carefully constructed series of clues that they believe Allen is using to hint at trouble in her marriage. A week later, the front cover of Grazia read “Lily’s Break-Up Message to Husband”, while the Daily Mail Online wrote of “alarm bells” over Allen’s photograph.

Her voice is both punk and disinterested, both promiscuous and not particularly sexual

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