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Irrationality interests me more than anything: sometimes it's very dangerous, but it can be incredibly beautiful.

A man was defined, in my father's circles, by what he could bear, the pain he could shrug off, the warmth or comfort he could deny himself.

One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I'm going to write a book about my father.'

My first book was a car crash. I tried to find all the copies and destroy them.

What makes me write is the rhythm of the world around me - the rhythms of the language, of course, but also of the land, the wind, the sky, other lives. Before the words comes the rhythm - that seems to me to be of the essence.

The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a longer poem, is finished enough to write down. I can hold several lines in my head for quite some time, but as soon as they are written down, the register clears, as it were, and I have to work with what is on the paper.

My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.

Poetry stands or falls by its music.

Every time I write a book, I think how I could be doing it better to please people - a nicer book with nicer characters - but I just can't.

My second, third and fourth novels were mistakes, essentially.

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