We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks.
This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.
People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.
I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote.
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.