Lauren Oyler on Poetry, Attention and Not Going Home

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Lauren Oyler's triptych On Not Going Home, published in Berlin Review Reader 5, moves between late-night bars, missed connections, temporary attachments and the melancholy of staying awake too long.

In conversation with Berlin Review editor Tobias Haberkorn, Lauren reflects on why she turned to poetry, after years of writing prose and what it means to remain suspended between homes, relationships and other places.

This conversation was recorded in December before a live audience at the daadgalerie in Berlin.

You can read more of Lauren Oyler’s poetry in Review Reader 5 (http://blnreview.de/reader/5-winter-2026)) and online at blnreview.de (https://blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/2026-01/on-not-going-home-lauren-oyler))

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