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.

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

This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.

We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks.

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

Somebody will be able to crack ebook files in the same way that people cracked music files a decade ago. An author could have worked for three years on his book, have someone buy it for their Kindle for £6.99 and then see it shared with everyone in the world for free.

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