News at Eleven: "But it wasn't so much how good

or how bad the poem was that decided it for me, it was how I felt when I was writing the poem. It was as if I, Ben Okri, disappeared. It was that self-forgetfulness in the writing of poetry, I still have it to this day. When I write a poem I go into a state of self-forgetfulness and something higher takes over, I like to call it my best self."

Now, sitting in a room at his agent's office in London, drinking Earl Grey tea and eating biscuits ("Which biscuits are these? Digestives! I love Digestives!") he tells me he is writing poetry again.

from The Scotsman: Interview: Ben Okri--Booker prize-winning novelist and poet

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