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There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor.

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

I just love doing different things, which is what being a working author is like.