Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.

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!

Ludlow....is probably the loveliest town in England with its hill of Georgian houses ascending from the river Teme to the great tower of the cross-shaped church, rising behind a classic market building.

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

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.

Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.