I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources.

I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources.

Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.

Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.

Who gets to choose what battle takes her down?