A poem can have an impact, but you can’t expect an audience to understand all the nuances.
Category: poetry
Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.
Poetry is a sort of homecoming.
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It’s hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.
I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
It’s necessary to start most work alone. But I’m tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it’s borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.
I’m hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career – they are so fun and witty.