I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too

Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini.

Frost isn’t exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.

Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England last year.

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level.

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry