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I studied W. S. Graham’s poem for rhymes, sentence structure, pacing, inversions. It was like an impossible staircase or a…
Reading. Breathing. No TV, just books, just us. In those few days, I fell in love with Agatha Christie and…
I remember my heart breaking for Joe when he goes to visit Pip in London, and Pip’s embarrassment at Joe’s…
I felt a particular affinity with writers who brought the ‘folk’ into literature. Much later I encountered Zora Neale Hurston’s…
I can’t recall why I bought All Quiet on the Western Front. I imagine I thought it was going to…
On my arrival in Britain in the 1960s, I suffered serious racism, mainly at school, where my accent was constantly…
I used to read a book each week. Today I feel as if I write a book each week. I…
I reached my destination. The beautiful, big-skied, bleeding mothercountry of Toni Morrison. I swear she came to me rather than…
The fact is, Dahl used racist, anti-Semitic, classist, and viciously cruel language in his books. The fact is, I never…
Ntozake Shange, a Black feminist, in the 1980s, innovated in literature by creating choreopoetry, a long-form, poetic-prose narrative written for…
I’ve continued to incorporate myths, modern myth-making, magic realism, as part of my writing. It all stems from this formative…
Where once I was intimidated by Seamus Heaney’s brilliance, these days I am inspired by the poets whose work I…
