Rebecca Perry: ‘Lorca hit me like a bolt of lightning’

The poet and novelist on the power of fairytales, being inspired by Frank O’Hara and the joys of Doris Lessing My earliest reading memory Reading On the Ning Nang Nong by Spike Milligan, aged five or so, sitting on the floor of the bedroom I shared with my brother – who, in my memory, was sitting on the carpet next to me. My favourite book growing up I had a collection of fairytales in a big yellow hardback, which I was totally entranced by from around the age of seven to 10. I’ll never...

By Rebecca Perry