I Believe That These Devices Like Repetition

The Point Of Poetry Is To Be Acutely Discomforting, To Prod And Provoke, To Poke Us In The Eye, To Punch Us In The Nose, To Knock Us Off Our Feet, To Take Our Breath Away.

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.

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

Form Is A Straitjacket In The Way That A Straitjacket Was A Straitjacket For Houdini.

One Will Never Again Look At A Birch Tree, After The Robert Frost Poem, In Exactly The Same Way.