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

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

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

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 certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry

Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time