“Welch’s mother is a professor of Renaissance studies at King’s College London who worried about her daughter skipping university to focus on her musical career, lamenting “what a waste of a brain!” Both the lyrics and the poetry in Useless Magic validate Welch’s choice, offering a chance to appreciate on the bare stage of the blank page the fineness of her words. And like fellow poet-musician Nick Cave (thanked for “inspiration and encouragement” here), Welch has found a way for the song and the voice of the rabbit-hearted girl to coexist. As she says herself: “you can have everything.”
— Emily Mackay (2018) Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry by Florence Welch – review
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“Then we are dead and we are together in other New York, which is both heaven and hell, and we have coffee and ice cream and aching hearts.”
Penguin Books UK (2018) Florence Welch Reading New York Poem For Polly. Retrieved from Youtube, https://youtu.be/bb1riBNDMBg.
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