I do a lot of readings.

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

I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry

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

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.