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

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

I do a lot of readings.

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

What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up

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

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