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

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

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.

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry

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

On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place.

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