There is such a shelter in each other.

In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.

I think all writing is political. All writing shows a preoccupation with something, whatever that thing might be, and by putting pen to paper you are establishing a hierarchy of some sort - this emotion over that emotion, this memory over that memory, this thought over another. And isn't that process of establishing a hierarchy on the page a kind of political act?

I'm always reading books, I'm always having encounters, I'm always taking trips. Whatever it is you come up with about how you got started, that's equally true for all the books you didn't start.

I think New York is working its way into my poems. It takes a while for a place to filter its way onto the page, but I've been reading more and more American poetry and I certainly feel it as quite a freeing force. Coming from the formally ordered tradition of poetry in Ireland, I find the expansiveness of American literature freeing in some sense.

There used to be one writer rather than a team of writers. It's the old line about a camel being a horse designed by committee.

A huge portion of Trump voters are incredibly pleased with how he's performing. They see what they want to see.