"The work comes out of my experience as a child growing up on farms in remote parts of England. When I was no older than eight, I’d walk three or four miles at least into the hills by myself. I had what I think of now as a deep, uncanny life outdoors."—Interview with Marissa Bell Toffoli, Words With Writers
"The joy of risk—especially extension . . . to want to tell something about landscape, to meet the resistance of language, and then to tunnel on and on, until long since lost—what happens to language in that space? Poet as Radio Interview, Listen on Apple Podcasts