December 18, California

I have been neglecting my blog, partly because I feel so repetitive, but I have some good news to share: my lovely British publisher, https://www.carcanet.co.uk/, will bring out my fifth collection of poetry in August 2024. Carcanet was also the publisher of my 2018 collection, The Hotel Eden, and I am delighted they want the new book, which will be called Apple Thieves, after a poem by the same name published in The New Yorker magazine in April 2019.

So the holidays are almost upon us. We head for St Juan Island, Washington (state) for a few days, return to Palo Alto and head off to Paris a few days later. On January 9 I’ll be introducing my friend and fellow writer, Shelley Day, who is launching her book, Paris Pages. That’s at 7 pm at The Red Wheelbarrow bookshop opposite the Luxembourg Garden in the 6th arrondissement. Hope to see you there!