We want to know that we're not alone with our loneliness or loss.

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

Science is claiming ever more ground from popular stories of the kind we thought we weren't to believe in.

I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year to the work.

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.

Trauma, and certain important experiences, can imprint on us at a genetic level.

It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me it often feels like a brutal trivialization of reality.