I began reading prose poems back in 1981 and immediately felt at home in the way they capture an alternate universe somewhere between dream and reality. It’s a form which offers both greater freedom and greater challenges because you can’t rely on the narrative of fiction or the line breaks of poetry.

Certain themes tend nearly always to emerge when I write, for example, questions of identity and reality, hidden personal histories, and the self disowned in the business of living. This all sounds a bit grim, but I think there is often a playfulness and humour there, too.