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

I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.

That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry

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