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Interview for Poetry Parnassus

In advance of Poetry Parnassus I am being interviewed for the festival website by S J Fowler.

Our conversation builds on a previous interview Steven conducted with me for 3:AM Magazine's 'Maintenant' series on contemporary European poets, originally published on 2 January 2011 - and coincidentally republished just this week on the Poetry International blog as part of that organisation's effort to bring the whole series and the poets featured in it to a wider audience.

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