Living At That Pitch, On That Edge,

What I Try To Do Is To Go Into A Poem - And One Writes Them, Of Course, Poem By Poem - To Go Into Each Poem, First Of All Without Having Any Sense Whatsoever Of Where It's Going To End Up

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.

I Suppose For Whatever Reason I Actively Welcome Being Put Down, Something Which Perhaps Goes Back To My Upbringing - That Accusation Of Not Being Worthy Which Could Be Laid At One's Door.

If The Poem Has No Obvious Destination, There's A Chance That We'll Be All Setting Off On An Interesting Ride.

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