Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too..

At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. (Poetry) still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in a way that fiction….

A hope of something beyond our place and time. This is what books - the best books - give us: a lifeline, a reason to believe, a way to breathe more ….

The selective memory isn't selective enough..