I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.

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 lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then.

Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.

Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically.