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• What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem -…
• One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
• I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.
• For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry
• The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of…
• 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…
• I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987
• I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language
• Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read
• We simply have not kept in touch with poetry
• On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are…

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