‘When I first heard a poet read, in a chemistry laboratory at Newcastle University, he was Ted Hughes; his gruff Yorkshire voice threw me onto a frosty moor. I could see horses. Hear horizons.’
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‘At sixteen, they took me to the National where I fell in love with Rosencrantz, totally unaware that also on stage were both my future husbands.’
‘Newspaper stories act as one of my biggest writing inspirations. I’ve often come across a random story which gets my imagination going and acts as a way in, and a starting point to explore a new world.’