I prefer always to think that I am creating a book, not a series of stand-alone poems.
I spend a lot of time revising. I'm not somebody who can move slowly.
One of the reasons I like immersing myself in different texts, putting myself in the company of other writers, is that they do change your vocabulary. They change what you write about or they change the length of lines.
Language is as fragile as the little alpine plant.
For me, failure has to be acknowledged, needs to be faced in some way.
A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work.