In a world without air all you breathe is adventure!

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.

For you where never my blood sister so no more shall I call you little sister

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk.

However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.

If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.