There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.

The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me.

I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'

I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end.

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.

I went to the top of Vesuvius and looked in.

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.