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A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my... →
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.
I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her... →
Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.
Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the... →
I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.
I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.
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