We simply have not kept in touch with poetry

Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme

I do a lot of readings.

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry

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.