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

The ground swell is what’s going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are clichés also, of course, and I’m sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.

It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed.

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level.

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

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

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