I Didn't Choose Russia But Russia Chose

My First Collection Of Poems Was Published By Bloodaxe Books, Which Was Then A Very New Imprint.

I Concentrate On The Lives Of Individuals Whom The Reader Comes To Know And Feel With Intimately.

I Enjoy Research; In Fact Research Is So Engaging That It Would Be Easy To Go On For Years, And Never Write The Novel At All.

The Poets Whom I Knew Then Were All Men And All Seemed Dauntingly Sure Of Themselves - Although I Am Sure That Really They Were As Uncertain As I Was.

Count Dracula Had Directed Me To Go To The Golden Krone Hotel, Which I Found, To My Great Delight, To Be Thoroughly Old-fashioned, For Of Course I Wanted To See All I Could Of The Ways Of The Country.