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I step naked into the shower of truth - whole-hearted, bloody-minded, utterly selfish, no longer even pretending to enjoy or understand anything.

There's the space that you soar into, the space that you sometimes break through to, and hang in. A sort of gasp or gap.

I feel much safer faced with a blank sheet of paper than I do with a real person.

Poetry is a big space and I love it.

An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.

I like to think that I'm giving a voice to the silenced ...

When I was first published it was like having people rushing in coming to find out where I was hiding. Scary!

All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to face.

If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to people and be happy.

I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.