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

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme

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

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

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

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.

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.