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

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987

Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time

I do a lot of readings.

On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place.

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