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

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.

Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England last year.

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'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme

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

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