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

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level.

I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.

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

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

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.