"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."

"I cannot say where you are. Unreachable by prayer, even if poems are prayers. Unseeable in the air, even if souls are…"

"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…"