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Uk newswatch. Thats all from us. Well be back to hear your thoughts about bbc News Coverage again next week. Goodbye. From celebrated novelist to poet. Michel fabers success has come with some long books, like the crimson petal and the white, and, more recently, the book of strange new things, which is science fiction. But after the death of his wife, eva, he decided to write a Book Of Poems Undying A Love Story that follows the stages of her illness and describes the raw day by day process of his own grief afterwards. Welcome. As a novelist, was it difficult to commit yourself, especially under these very painful circumstances, to a poetic form . I didnt feel i was committing myself to anything. In the aftermath of evas death, these poems came to me. I had no conception that i was going to put them out there. They were just suggesting themselves to be written. It seemed perverse not to write them, given that they were coming to me. I didnt feel that i would put them out there. But when i started reading them out at literary festivals, i noticed that they were connecting with people. And i thought, well, maybe this is something that is not essentially private. Maybe this can be shared. Reading these very direct, frank, in some cases brutal, poems was in a strange sort of way giving people a consolation. Because i was talking about things which are almost forbidden to talk about. Even though theres a lot of grieving poetry out there, it tends to be quite decorous and beautiful. Yes. And you wanted some of this to be raw. I wanted it to be raw and, in fact, i stopped writing. I could have gone on writing the poems until now. But i stopped writing them at the end of 2015, because i felt id reached the stage in my grieving where there was a risk i would just write a beautiful poem that happened to have grief as its subject, rather than feeling grief and needing to express it in some way. They were private expressions of your own feelings, some kind of reassurance, some kind of record, i suppose, of the journey youd been through. With all its pain and difficulties. And joys as well, along the way. But youd always thought of them as something personal to you . Well, i have a long record of writing things and not putting them out there. I wrote for 25 years without submitting anything. So, yes, if i had thought that they were just me talking to myself about what i had gone through, i wouldnt have shared them. There is anger in there, there is unbearable sadness. And there are those moments after your wifes death that everyone will recognise at that sort of time. Things, for example, like the death of a cat. Which takes you back in a weird way to your human loss. And its the kind of thing people think about but dont often say, let alone write down. Yeah. The poem that was particularly significant on that level is. There is a poem called you were ugly. Which talks about what happened to her body as a result of the cancer. And thats a taboo, youre really not allowed in our. To talk about the physical changes. Yes, yes. Towards the end of her life. And when i read that poem out on the radio about a year ago, someone phoned in the Radio Station and said, look, im not ready to read this book yet. I lost my wife, too, recently. But i am consoled that someone has expressed this thing which ive been thinking and felt that i wasnt allowed to think. Will this take you into poetry as a medium . No. Beyond this volume . No, this will be the only book of poetry that i write. Im under no illusions that im a good enough poet to write poems about anything other than the loss. This one experience. Yes, this one experience. Does that mean that you will return to fiction . Because it has been quite a journey. As you say, you had a long period where you didnt submit anything for publication. You know, youre sort of famously almost reclusive as a writer in that sense, for a long time. Will this have that same effect in you or not . Well, when eva was ill, and she knew she was going to die, she was very, very upset with my decision, which i had already made, that i would write no more novels. Her attitude was never say never. But i would be astonished if i wrote another novel for grown ups. I do want to write a novel for children. Its something i havent done before. With each book i wanted to do something that i have not done before. I also think that in the world as it currently is, a little magic doesnt go amiss. A little benign adventure. There are writers, thinking earlier about thomas hardy, who lived to the late 20s, but wrote his last novel in the mid 1890s, and spent the rest of his life Writing Poetry. Now, you say youre not going to do another novel, another volume of poetry, but it does seem as if the moment youve reached in yourfiction writing and with this break, because of the circumstances you found yourself in, it is time for something completely new. Yes. And something i also want to do is figure out whether i can have a life beyond being a writer. Because. Do you not know . Im so used to inhabiting that little Sanctum Sanctorum and creating works of art, which is an alternative to hanging out with real human beings and smelling the roses and all those things, that ordinary people know how to do. When youre not writing, when youre not sitting in that quiet room, what are you doing . Are you reading fiction at all . I dont read fiction at all. I will occasionally read a book about music. Mainly, i listen to music. Instrumental music mainly. So my space has no language in it. Its an extraordinary thing to hear, in a writer of your celebrity and accomplishment, saying he no longer reads fiction. Do you ever feel guilty about that or is thatjust the way it is . It makes, in some ways it makes things a lot easier because it means when i meet another writer and i havent met their work, havent read their work, its not that im choosing against. You can say i havent read anybody elses either. I havent read anybody elses either. So thats a sort of socially convenient. But maybe in the future i would like to become the sort of person who reads again. So whether youre Writing Poetry in the sadness after your wifes death, or whether you are contemplating a move to fiction for young people, or listening to music, youre always, finally, looking for a new horizon. Somewhere. Yes, but maybe the ultimate new horizon is to become more like other people. Because that has been my mission in a way. All my life. Because i started off very, very alienated, very strange. And i didnt want to become an alienated fringe dweller. Its frightening in a way for me to become more connected, because as you become more connected with other people, youre vulnerable to their lives. Going bad. And if youre a solitary fringe dweller, youre protected from that. Whereas once you welcome these people in, life is harsh. But its a risk you feel you now have to take. I feel its a risk i now have to take. Well, not have to take, but want to take. Michel faber, author of undying a love story, thank you very much. Thank you. Good afternoon. It has been a mixed bag in terms of the first half. This was County Antrim in Northern Ireland earlier. Quite cool. Contrast with the blue skies of cornwall that is developing more widely in england and wales in the coming few hours as the clear skies put them on the map. The wetter weather further north into Northern Ireland and especially moving into scotland. We will see the weather improving in Northern Ireland at the same time as the showers work their way into scotland. Still some warmth for while across the murray firth where we have some decent lana. More sunshine around england. Brightening up sunshine around england. Brightening up in Northern Ireland, as well. Decent temperatures. The weather changing in cornwall, but a good deal of sunshine in england and wales and just a couple of showers, they could affect the rugby at castleford but it is likely to be dry for the womens fa cup final. Decent evening in the south east of the uk. Stronger winds, though, that will bring outbreaks of rain and a heavy burst which will push into eastern areas late in the night. It will keep the temperatures up at around 11. It could turn a bit cold in the countryside in Northern Ireland overnight and into the morning. Some rain but that will not last long in england in the morning, although it will last longer in northern scotland. A few heavy showers for scotland and Northern Ireland and we could see a line of persistent showers from the south west into the home counties. Temperatures similar to today, and it could reach about 20 in the south east of england. Things change at the beginning of next week, the area of low pressure running from the atlantic. It brings warm air and the atlantic. It brings warm air and the potential for rain and that could be quite heavy on monday. Especially over Western Hills accompanied by strong gale force winds. Not much rain in the south of england. 18 degrees there. 16 elsewhere. It could be warm on tuesday if we have sunshine, but it would be cooler in between and also the chance of some rain. This is bbc news. The headlines at 2 00 Downing Street has confirmed there will be a Cobra Meeting this afternoon to discuss the cyber attack which has disabled nhs computers in england and scotland. The government is ensuring that we are giving this our full attention and working with all organisations concerned to resolve it. Europol say the scale of the attack is unprecedented as thousands of organisations in around 100 countries are affected. Labours deputy leader, tom watson, has admitted that the party has a Mountain To Climb if its to win the june general election. Its eurovision night. Will britain face a brexit backlash . Well look ahead to tonights event. In sport, chelsea are triumphant and win the Premier League title, in Antonio Contes first season in charge