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.

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.

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.

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.

i'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.

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.

There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.