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For 10 years, I gave away my possessions every year and moved on to a new place.

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Growing up, I learnt to think, 'Let's make it a big night tonight, as you never know what's going to happen next.' So now I have enough, I take too much; when I get the chance to have a fine dinner, I will. And it's had an effect on my health.

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'The Asylum Dance' was written after I'd moved back to Scotland and was a response to moving to my old home area of Fife.

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I moved south when I was 11 years old, moved to England. I've lived in all kinds of places, all parts of England.

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I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself be pigeon-holed, not necessarily by other people, but in one's own mind.

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The way I mainly use the Internet is keeping in touch with poets that live far away. My main interest is contemporary American poets and some Spanish language poets, and I keep in touch with their work through either their websites or email.

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I realised I'd spent a lot of time in my poetry trying to find a way of talking about that whereof we cannot speak.

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For a bird, especially for the more musically inventive, song is the defining characteristic, the primary way by which it knows itself and is known by others. To lose its species song is to lose not just its identity but some part of its presence in the world.

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With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.

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As attractive as it is, the idea that nature can exist beyond our dangerous 'instinct for happiness' is never the whole story.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Writer

Born: March 19th, 1955

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