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<p> Sarah Maria Griffin: 'I went to the Rotunda every second day. I’d listen to the baby’s heart. She had a pulse, and there was a pulse coming from the placenta. The sound of the uterus is like a whooshing sound, like the ocean, like the sound you make when you soothe a baby — hush, hush – it comes from that internal landscape. I heard that every second day for a good few weeks.' Photo: Moya Nolan</p>

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Griffin was first rejected by a publisher at age 11. She turned to poetry; her first collection came out in 2011, when she was taking a Masters in Creative Writing.

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