Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.

In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

I could look at you forever and never see the two of us together

Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.

…balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.

I'm a line-maker. I think that's what makes poets different from prose-writers. That's the main way. We think, not just in sentences the way prose writers do but also in lines. So we're doing these two things at the same time.

There's this pet phrase about writing that is bandied around particularly in workshops about "finding your own voice as a poet", which I suppose means that you come out from under the direct influence of other poets and have perhaps found a way to combine those influences so that it appears to be your own voice.