Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.

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

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

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

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.

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