Well here's a little treat for you all, on Wednesday 1st December she will be reading from and discussing her memoir Red Dust Road in the Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, at Goldsmiths University. Not only will this be great, but it's also FREE so there's literally no excuse why you shouldn't attend. The reading starts at 6:30.
As an extra treat here's a poem to whet your appetite:
Baby Lazarus
When I got home
I went out into the garden
Liking it when the frost bit
My old brown boots
And dug a hole the size of a baby
And buried the clothes
I'd bought anyway, just in case.
A week later I stood at my window
And saw the ground move
And swell the promise of a crop;
That's when she started crying.
I gave her a service then
Sang Ye Banks And Braes
Planted a bush of roses
Read from the Bible, the book of Job
Cursed myself digging a pit for my baby
Sprinkling ash from the grate.
Late that same night
She came in by the window
My baby Lazarus
And suckled at my breast.