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In this week's episode, I’m talking to the inspiring Amy Key. 

Amy is a poet and author who lives in London. Her poetry collection, Luxe, was published in 2013. Her second collection, Isn’t Forever, was published in 2018 and was a Poetry Book Society Wild Card choice. Amy’s debut non-fiction book, Arrangements in Blue, was published in spring 2023. The book uses Joni Mitchell’s 1971 album, Blue, as a framework to investigate our cultural obsession with coupledom, and what it means to live a life in the absence of romantic love. 

Amy grew up in Kent and the North East, but has lived and worked in London since 2001.

 Topics that Amy & I cover are:

• how, when she broke up with her last boyfriend at the age of 22, she assumed her singleness would be temporary;
• how in her thirties she thought there was something uniquely wrong with her that was the reason she was alone;
• how putting romantic love at the centre of everything can be damaging to both singles and people in relationships;
• how Amy used to think of herself as a perpetual adolescent rather than a ‘proper’ adult;
• how Amy still feels lonely at times, but how she has learnt to embrace her solitude;
• her advice for singles about the importance of being intentional with their weekend time;
• why we should question the relative importance of romantic love;
• how Amy came up with the idea for her book, Arrangements in Blue;
• how Amy has spent a lifetime listening to Joni Mitchell, and how she is in her blood;
• how she used the songs from Joni’s album, Blue, to give the book a framework to reflect back the different elements of Amy’s single life;
• how the song, All I Want, resonated with Amy as soon as she heard it at the age of 14;
• the meaning behind, and Amy’s interpretation of, the songs Blue, A Case of You, and The Last Time I Saw Richard in the book;
• how the concept of having a ‘soulmate’ can make single people feel even more lonely;
• how other things in life can make you equally as happy as romantic love.

Check out Amy’s website:
https://amyvkey.com/

Buy Amy’s book:
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/447053/arrangements-in-blue-by-key-amy/9781787333895

Follow Amy on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/msamykey/ 

Follow Amy On Twitter:
https://twitter.com/msamykey

Follow Amy on Blue Sky:
https://bsky.app/profile/amykey.bsky.social

Amy’s Substack:
https://amykey.substack.com/ 

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