What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.