How might this have changed since the publication of your book? I love thinking about these things – the chance to be creative is the best love story of my life – the marriage is with the vocation and I wake up every day and think about how lucky and grateful I am. I am researching for an essay on poetry and motherhood for a Bloomsbury Companion I’ve just finished the final edit of some poems for a Canongate anthology, I have been asked to have poems from my collection put to classical music and to prepare to appear live on BBC’s Debate Night if I so desire it! Last week, I screened a film poem at The Fruitmarket Gallery, and now I am thinking about Paolozzi’s Vulcan, Nan Sheperd’s mountain and Berber folklore all separately for projects and missions that require poetic responses before the month is out! Anything I have to research first I love more than anything – the more knowledge I digest the more enthused I am to write. I’m about to start working on a new poetry manuscript with Pavilion I’m trying to find a publisher for my travel memoir (currently in transit for an editorial meeting with Polygon – fingers crossed!) and I am also thinking about writing another book of essays and prose about supernatural experiences and the haunting of society called ‘First Sightings’. Many things! I try to keep my thoughts high frequency, even though I do over-think! That is the everyday consequence of balancing out multiple literary projects all the time the mind and imagination are hijacked in a spinnerette of all sorts of beautiful but different directions. What sort of things are you thinking about at the moment? For the latest interview in the series, we chatted to Janette Ayachi, author of Hand Over Mouth Music (2019) to discuss her collection and the disruptive pleasures of writing which flow throughout her work. ![]() ![]() ![]() 2022 marks the eighth year of Pavilion Poetry, and we’re taking the opportunity to look back at our brilliant collections with a series of author Q&As. Whether by new or established and award-winning writers, this is poetry sure to challenge and delight. Always international in its reach, Pavilion Poetry is poetry that takes a risk.
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