Flashback to my first book of poetry, Defenestration, published in 1997. Now back in print.

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Books. It's always been about books for me. Reading them. Making them. Writing them. Collecting them. Lending them. Borrowing them. The written word opening doors and taking me to new worlds.

When I was a kid I read everything. I devoured words for breakfast, lunch and dinner. In high school I sat in maths class with a book balanced on my knee so the teacher couldn’t see and I read paragraphs in-between doing algebra equations. If there wasn’t a book around I would read the back of cereal boxes and milk cartons. I was hungry for words and stories. Still am.