Interview in 'The London Magazine'

‘The London Magazine’ has just posted an interview about my new collection; you can read it here.

The book will be launched by Carcanet Press tomorrow at 7pm in the UK. Where I am, in California, it will be 11 am. The wonderful thing about online launches (usually via Zoom) is that the reader can invite her friends from the west coast of North America east across the time zones to Europe and beyond.

Here, right now, it is lunch time, the sun is shining, the occasional cyclist pedals by, shuttling kids around, or heading for the hills. The creek out front of us is dry dry dry, waiting for rain, probably still a few months off. But the nightly chorus of crickets doesn’t mind. A commuter trains whistles past, but not very often at this time of day. I’d like to say the whistle takes me back to the transcontinental trains that whistled through southern Canada when I was a kid, but alas, the line shuttles between only San José and San Francisco.