“You struck nearer home with your aversion to my writing and to everything that, unknown to you, was connected with it. Here I had, in fact, got some distance away from you by my own efforts…….”

The Oulipo mathematicians met regularly to create new poetic numerical strictures; they believed that in numbers and algorithms there existed the freedom and device to create a synthesized and coherent poetry never before seen…….

Tina was the girl whose mother was a prostitute. The council had taken her into care when she was four and this was her third children’s home. She was seventeen like me, but she had left school and worked at a hairdressing salon.

I value most the literature which I can retreat into when the “real” world becomes too severe. Some might term this an escapist preference…..

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