"

I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their ...more

"

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersa...more

"

Where do the words gowhen we have said them?

"

speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy and square like tanks.

"

But she went to tell the bees. She felt like an idiot doing it, but she'd promised. She remembered that it wasn't enough just to think at them: you ha...more

"

You couldn’t leave words lying around where our enemies might find them.