We simply have not kept in touch with poetry
I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too
The ground swell is what’s going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are clichés also, of course, and I’m sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.
Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.
Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini.
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.