“I do believe that we've a responsibility to try to acknowledge the range, both g…” — Paul Muldoon

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.

I met Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley on the same day in 1968. I was sixteen at the time. Very exciting. They were reading at Armagh. One of my teachers brought me to meet them, introduced me, and I became friends with them.