The only pleasure in redecorating or moving house comes from stumbling across books that I'd almost forgotten I owned.
From John Burnside
If I tell you a story, you can choose to believe me, or you can question it.
When you have a child, you think about your personal history and what you offer them as a larger narrative, and I realised I knew nothing about my father's circumstances other than what he'd told me.
My father was this big, tough guy, almost heroic in proportion to me as a child. It was only later that I saw how fearful he was.
Andoya is in a different world, set at the northern edge of Europe in what seems to be a time and weather of its own.
I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish.
My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to be an appropriate tool for exploring that.
I'm interested in the way language is used to navigate the world around us.
With fiction, I tend to get to my desk and start writing. Poetry I write in my head, often while walking, so that my poems have an organic quality, hopefully.
I'm an insomniac, so my perfect reader is probably another insomniac.
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