"I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing."

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"I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing."

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"If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us."

Past

"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."

Writing

"Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book."

Hope

"It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed."

Politics

"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."

Hope

"My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint."

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"Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words."

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"Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children."

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"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."

Fact

"To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation."

History