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.

I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.

As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates.

I was always influenced by language.

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

Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn’t work, throw it away.

I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay.