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Mark O'Toole from the FAI has looked after me well back in England to the point that I consider him a father figure.
When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.
Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.