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• ‟ I do believe that we've a responsibility to try to acknowledge the range, both geographic and graphic, of what's happening in poetry in English. I'm interested in poems that are first-rate. After that, I'm not too concerned if they come from Queens or Queensland.

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• ‟ I love the fact that Inuit poetry may resonate with me as much as Irish.

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• ‟ I don't shape trends, I'd say. I merely reflect them. I think the emphasis is on 'them.' I like variety in poetry. I love how it comes in so many guises. As rock lyric, as rap, as note on a fridge.

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

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• ‟ One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

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• ‟ We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

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• ‟ I read a lot of nineteenth-century French poetry. And Irish poetry from the ninth century on.

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• ‟ Poetry is as vital as ever. The teaching of poetry reading, however, is sluggish and, often, slovenly. It needs to be expanded in the school curriculum and be more a feature of society at large. The newspapers should all be carrying a daily poem. It should be as natural as reading a novel.

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• ‟ I think poetry, rather than suffering, is more and more sufficient to the needs of our society. It's one of the reasons so much of it is, for want of a better term, 'surreal.'

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