I Don't Feel I'm Thrown Around By

Most People Wait For The Muse To Turn Up. That's Terribly Unreliable. I Have To Sit Down And Pursue The Muse By Attempting To Work.

When You've Been Initiated, You Can Stand In The World Differently. And I Think It Is Up To All Of Us, We Can Have Cheerleaders, We Can Have Supporters, But It Comes Down To Us As Individuals, How Do We Now Proceed? Do We Have The Tools To Proceed?

It's An Australian Thing To Be Dismissive. We Find That Endearing. Americans Don't. They Believe What You Say.

I've Had To Try And Find A Way Over The Years Of Writing Narratively That Doesn't Really Require You To Sit Down And Work Out What The Story's About. You're Brought Into A Sort Of Sequence Of Images That Have That Emotional Resonance, But It's Kind Of Irrelevant What The Actual Story Is. It's Taken Me Maybe 13 Albums Or Something To Work That Out.

You Searched Through All My Poets, From Sappho Through To Auden, I Saw The Book Fall From Your Hands, As You Slowly Died Of Boredom.