"Somewhere on the other side of this wide night and the distance between us, I am thinking of you. The room is turning…"

"Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion. It is a moon wrapped in brown paper. It promises light like the…"

"Here. It will blind you with tears like a lover. It will make your reflection a wobbling photo of grief."

"Light gatherer. You fell from a star into my lap, the soft lamp at the bedside mirrored in you, and now you shine lik…"

"As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, tacitu…"

"What do I have to help me, without spell or prayer, endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous, the death of love?"

"When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding…"

"There'll be what you might call a moment of inspiration – a way of seeing or feeling or remembering, an instance or a…"

"Six hours like this for a few francs. Belly nipple arse in the window light, he drains the colour from me. Further to…"

"This is the word tightrope. Now imagine a man, inching across it in the space between our thoughts. He holds our brea…"