Our First Lady of letters.

She was a great heroine to many young women of my age. She was a heroine for her independence and her courage in speaking out in defence of lost causes and for…

Mary McCarthy was a rara avis, a rare bird: a truly sexy intellectual who was nonetheless more interested in truth than in being intellectually sexy or fashion…

The cultural heroine of my generation... before feminist writing got bogged down in victimisation.

At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in so far as writing is the expression of so…

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman 'other' or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of …