I Have To Admit That I Had

I Have To Admit That I Had A Lot Of Problems With Poetry.

I Took Four Years Off After 'in The Cut' Because I Wanted To See Who I'd Be Without Work. I Even Tried Being A Hermit In The Wilderness In New Zealand. I Stayed In A Warden's Hut Two-and-a-half Hours Off The Routeburn Track Through The Fjords On The South Island. It Was Early Winter, So There Was No Electricity Or Running Water.

Between 18 And 26 I Acted Professionally, On The Stage And A Little Bit On Television. Acting Is Okay, But It's Quite Pressurized. Then I Went To England - I Wanted To Reinvent Myself.

Because There Is That Sort Of Feeling That People Don't Know What To Do With Gaps In Their Lives. It's A Scary Notion, But Actually, If You Can Stand In Space Just For A Little While, A New Door Will Open, Or You'll Be Able To See In The Dark After A While. You'll Adjust.

When I Read Andrew Motion's Biography, I Wept. It's Something About The Purity Of The Story And How Fresh It Was Because Of The Love Letters Keats Wrote.