“Dictionaries are all about preservation and loss, and I think it’s probably possible to see the ‘Dictionary of Magic’ poems as trying to call forth and/or deal with ghosts in some ways. Although I think that applies to a lot of my poems.”

“Such are the tricks that distance and sea mist play, in ‘The Catch’, on the eye and the imagination – like the way sailors once upon a time saw dugongs crouched on distant shores and thought they were mermaids.”