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Holly Pester

Holly Pester

Poet

Sep 9, 2026

speaker_6AUDIENCE
7:15
I've been doing
7:16
great, great work there.
7:18
Cafes, I guess it's like a, it is kind of one poem in a sense.
7:22
It's not really a collection.
7:24
It's like an anti-epic and it's sectioned into four parts.
7:30
The first, and each section is a cafe.
7:33
So the first section is the workers cafe.

27 MINS LATER

Luke RobertsMODERATOR
34:44
Is there another bit? Do you want to read another bit?
speaker_1HOST
7:20
How does that speak to the poem, that quote?
7:23
It's quite cheeky of me because it's one of those epigraphs where I've just taken the middle of a long sentence.
7:31
It's not a full sentence, so it's quite cheeky.
7:35
And also I'm playing with just the fact that in the English translation, waiter means both someone who's waiting loosely, I guess you could think of yourself as someone who's waiting, and also as sort of the profession of being a waiter, a service waiter.
7:57
Because a lot of the book, a lot of the sort of subjective experiences in the book are There's lots of waiting.
8:08
There's also kind of experience of waiting.
8:10
And I think that's that's on one level what existence feels like.

5 MINS LATER

speaker_1HOST
13:40
Can you talk about that a little bit more? What do you mean about being social?

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