It's Not As If I'm Trying To

For Whatever Reason, People, Including Very Well-educated People Or People Otherwise Interested In Reading, Do Not Read Poetry

We Simply Have Not Kept In Touch With Poetry

I Was Born In Northern Ireland In 1951. I Lived Most Of My Life There Until 1986 Or 1987

The Ground Swell Is What’s Going To Sink You As Well As Being What Buoys You Up. These Are Clichés Also, Of Course, And I’m Sometimes Interested In How Much One Can Get Away With.

I Believe That These Devices Like Repetition And Rhyme Are Not Artificial, That They're Not Imposed, Somehow, On The Language.