I Was Born In Northern Ireland In

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.

I Do A Lot Of Readings.

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.

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

Obviously One Of The Things That Poets From Northern Ireland And Beyond - Had To Try To Make Sense Of Was What Was Happening On A Day-to-day Political Level.