This is for the technology department at The South Bank. I was interviewed last month for Technology Guardian in a section called Celebrity Squares. So here it is just for you. The largest growth area for The Guardian is technology adn online and I would say the same for the BBC. Moe people read the Guardian online than in its paper form. Anyway - here's the interview.   more »

In August The Independent published an interview. I want to share with all the workers what happened with the last question of that particular interview. The question was something like "if you were not a writer what would you be". My response was "I am absolutely what I was made to be so I find it very difficult if not impossible". The interviewer asked me to try "I can't" I replied. And after even more gentle cajoplling I said words to the effect of "I'd work in arts administration....maybe a poet who works in arts administration I suppose" I followed through with a garbled " I can't see myself being anything other than what I am". This is the background to the answer of the final question. Just so you know. Cause if you didn't know the background it gives a different impression. Here's the interview.   more »