Why do I write?

To give and feel through it a particular elation following a unique pre-verbal feeling that I couldn't celebrate and recreate in any other way.

How do I write?

I go around with pen and paper to gather this "energy" and then fight at home to sense and produce the most faithful words, most adhering to the original perception.

My writing routine?

I do not have a real writing routine. I depend on "the muse", that energy, when it honours me with its arrival, then I must "serve" it, like yesterday, "it" arrived-at ten in the morning and I fought all day for the right words and the poem arrived at eight in the evening.

My writing style?

I can't answer this question properly, it's a mixture of what I have been reading and my character and my energy, I think that those who read me are much better than me in answering such a question.

The writers who have inspired me?

Nothing very unknown or particular, three poets: R.S.Thomas, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott. Authors not very difficult to find in bookshops!

My favourite books?

Too many, difficult to say why in a few words, for the energy, the technique, the determination, the "heart" in them. Toni Morrison's Beloved, Love, The Song of Solomon. Seamus Heaney's Seeing Things. The Collected Poems of R.S.Thomas. The Bounty by Derek Walcott.

My writing ambitions?

Being read and find connections with those who read me and with others who write about my subjects.

Advice to aspiring writers?

Do not write to look smart, write because you can't live without it.

What am I working on currently?

Thinking about poems on matters I can't centre and I would really like to, example: write poems on the end of the sixties and my life and Bob Dylan's songs that filled that time. But while I would like to do so other poems come that have nothing, never, to do with it. The muse is normally capricious and strange.