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I suppose I’m what’s known these days as an ‘influencer’, and while that term has shallow connotations, I take the…
A non-fiction book tends to be sold before it’s written. Whether its your first book, or your fiftieth, the deadline…
I was writing anti-poems, non-poems, un-poems. I was working so hard at writing them. A poet who’s not writing poems…
What happens if you can’t get there? What happens if the cafe is shut, or there’s a thunderstorm? Or, you’re…
Every now and then someone gets in touch to say how much a piece of my writing has meant to…
When I read my own drafts, I print them out so that I have pages to turn, and can tap…
I spend my time writing and researching outsiders for biographies, but it took me a while to realise that I…
Six French poets got together with six English-speaking poets, and translated each other’s poems. The French poets were operating with…
To say that I was estranged from my father implies that I’d known him well at some point, and that…
You wanted so badly to be good at it, and you were worried that you’d find out that you were…
If we’d planned a girls’ trip to London or a night out, my sister would ask me who I’d killed…
To become a better writer, do you actually need to be less of a writer; a writer for less of…
