“I met Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley on the same day in 1968. I was sixteen a…” — Paul Muldoon

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.

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

I love adventure stories.

Believe it or not, one of the first poets I was aware of was Yeats. I recited 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' at a verse speaking competition when I was eight or nine.