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

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry

It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed.

I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too

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

Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini.

It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.