Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry, about the country, the suburbs and the seaside. Then there comes love... and increasingly; the fear of death.

Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry, about the country, the suburbs and the seaside. Then there comes love... and increasingly; the fear of death.

I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.

I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.

Lovers of Norfolk churches can never agree which is the best and I think one is either a Salle or a Cawston man.

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.

On out deathbeds we're not going to regret all the work we didn't do. We're going to regret all the sex we didn't have!