'Ridiculously hard': how Neil Gaiman wrote a poem for refugees from 1,000 tweets

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The author and UNHCR ambassador appealed for warm scenes for his poem What You Need to Be Warm – and received ideas from everyone from Ben Stiller to Monica Lewinsky

Coming up with his latest work was “ridiculously difficult”, Neil Gaiman admits. Last month, the Good Omens and American Gods author, who is also an ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , asked his Twitter followers to tell him what reminded them of warmth.

 

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Dear refugees, This is distasteful. A writer used crowdsourced (other people's) words and *as I understand it* needed to run off to a hideaway, or a second home, in Scotland to 'write' this poem about homeless refugees. The article is a grotesque pretense.

Refugees I will be sharing this with my Gr.11 ELA class as we read local poetry katherenav

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