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.

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

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

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme