Next: Collected Poems

Poetry by the screenwriter of 'Hideous Kinky' starring Kate Winslet, and script editor of Jane Campion's 'The Piano'.

This poetry volume is the yield of almost nine years of notebooks, observations and locations, mostly Athens and Berlin, but a smattering of London, Marrakech, Cameroon and West Bengal. I am a worker in film and stage: it is a wandering life.

The act of observation may be at the heart of all this, of observed events on a daily, human scale, but also of recorded personal feelin...