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Rarely, a poem will appear as if from nowhere. I first remember it happening in a Devon orchard, staring at…
My imaginary children: a short little book I knocked off in six months, into which I poured all my anguish…
In addition to the experience of writing an individual book, the career of a writer as a whole is something…
New York City was clearly where I ought to be, not stuck on a farm in rural Buckinghamshire! I should…
A friend stepped in to say that she would care for Boy 1, for one day a week, alongside her…
People you haven’t spoken to in years will expect free copies of your book, while others, close to you, won’t…
I’ve been accused of getting facts wrong when I haven’t, or leaving things out when I haven’t. There must be…
Georges Perec wrote an entire book without using the letter ‘e’ — La Disparition, translated by Gilbert Adair as A…
Norman MacCaig notably built up quite a body of poems about the animals and birds you are likely to encounter…
I’ve always had vivid dreams. Frequently, though, they don’t make for interesting writing. They remain locked in their own internal…
It is not the original idea that is important, so much as the subsequent sifting process. Is this really a…
The unwritten play becomes so tantalisingly wonderful, surprising, profound: — why spoil its hypothetical brilliance by encasing it in specific…
