Singing has nothing to do with poetry, except as twins separated at birth.

Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer - as it first formed for me.

After Fifty Shades of Grey, I think my writing is pretty tame, isn't it?

In some ways it is absurd for me to assert, counter to evidence, that I have not been writing.

The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.

It is true that my characters have sex.

When I spoke at the 2012 Contemporary Women Writers' Conference in Taipei, I thought it offered an appropriate moment and site to announce my new manifesto10 and profession - to be a writer.