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"I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing."
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"Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear."
"I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me."
"My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint."
"As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates."
"However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition."
"I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there."
"I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all."
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