Language in live performance (theatre, performance art, poetry in performance) is what excites me most... 
 
 

Works like Voices (for 9) and 40 for 3 are developments out of poetry into multi-voice poetry reading, almost spoken music

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I do not expect ever to create a work without words.

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The politics and poetics of language and meaning might define my key interests: a desire to combine extreme experiment, esoteric thought, intense contemplation and musical use of language into an accessible, but difficult and intelligent, literature.

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My main interest is language in performance: a trajectory from Hopkins and Stein through Cage, Beckett to Foreman and the LANGUAGE poets. Performance groups such as Forced Entertainment, Station House Opera, The Wooster Group, Foreman's Ontologic Hysteric Theatre have been of particular interest.

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One of my excitements in publishing and editing words worth magazine is receiving exciting work from unknown writers. Discussing authors' work and encouraging them to write more is really what makes the whole project worth pursuing: "generalising and democratising creativity".

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I work best when I have a number of projects in process at once. My artworks serve this function. I find the way I combine the words that I use in my writing is similar to the way I combine words and images in my artworks.

All my work is intended for performance (the sound of the words is as important as the sense), though I have yet to work out a suitable way to perform some of the longer prose works.

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I am intensely interested in theory, in particular performance theory, but would expect my researches to be presented in the form of plays or other creative work rather than in conventional academic form.

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My main interest is in language and experiments in its use - I work in three main areas: text for the page (though, because I write with constant awareness of the sound of the words as well as their meaning, I am always keen to read page-based texts aloud or adapt them for full performance), text with art (I have created a number of pieces for wall display which combine visual material with text) and text in live performance: experiments in performance (whether called theatre, live art, dance or by any other name, and whether esoteric or popular) keep the medium vibrant.

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My interest in computers is to investigate ways that the sensuous use of language can interact with technology and develop new forms appropriate to the new medium