If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride.

It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.

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

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

Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.

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

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry