The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.

As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and those who want to work out the chemical equation for language and pass on their experiments as poetry.

And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.

If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.

The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.

I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square and I felt pretty thrilled, but not quite as thrilled as I felt when I saw my name in the Examiner for the first time.

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.