Ceris Aston

And then Keris and I will work a lot together.

So we'll have our sort of three-hour Skypes of, but do we want that poem or do we want all of them?

I think my favourite was in the last major Skype session, which was Pieces for Sartorial.

We had such a high calibre of pieces submitted and we just, we couldn't keep being like, yes, we'll have that one, even if it was exceptional, which so many of them were.

And I was just like, right, okay, Annie.

Okay, so you have to pick the one piece that out of these like 10, 12 that you would save if it was on a sinking ship and you had to save it.

There were seven poems and I had to pick one.

And what was your response?

Five?

I have five.

And Cerys sort of, there was this moment of silence, and Cerys said, no, one, Annie.

I don't know, I thought about it.

And then I was like, I have two.

I think in the end, the two got in, but she had to fight for them really hard.

And having to fight for a poem makes you really love it.

Yeah.

I think, I mean, slightly differently, like, I know...

I know Keris, for example, loves the airport poem that you read, which I really like, but I think that Keris would be the one that would be like, yes, that piece, that's one of the ones in that issue.

Was it always going to be poetry and short stories?

I think