Of Course, You Can't Legislate For How

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.

Of Course, You Can't Legislate For How People Are Going To Read.

Words Want To Find Chimes With Each Other, Things Want To Connect.

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.

That's One Of The Great Things About Poetry; One Realises That One Does One's Little Turn - That You're Just Part Of The Great Crop, As It Were.