One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

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

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme

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

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 suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.

It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed.