We simply have not kept in touch with poetry

What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry

I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987

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

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme

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