I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987.

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.

I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too.

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.