Gardens do offer a temporal tableau and certainly mean differently in different eras and indeed geographies (think of the formal gardens in France).

I'm really interested in what you remember, how you remember, what your perspective is as opposed to somebody else's.

I try to attach myself to things around me so that they don't slip away.

I prefer always to think that I am creating a book, not a series of stand-alone poems.

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.

I've always been interested in the fragility of things, and with special urgency now because of climate change, but also because of the accidents of reading.

I know that in some ways I operate from a kind of antiquated interest in imagery, while many contemporary poets are not so interested in imagery. I think part of it is my training, and just my visual sense of things.