Jenni Fagan is the real thing, and The Panopticon is a real treat: maturely alive to the pains of maturing, and cleverly amused as well as appalled by what it finds in the world.
I'm ensuring my place in heaven.
I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.
Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril
But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.