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

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.

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

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

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme

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.

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.