The Independent - London, May 7th, 2000
Contemporary poetry interests me because poetry interests me. Contemporary poetry interests me particularly because it is in some kind of trouble. There is probably nothing new in this. Poetry is produced out of trouble. It is troubled utterance, its virtue clarity but mystery. It is thought clouded by feeling, made flesh, registered along the sinews, in breath and bowels. Its rhythm is a version of respiration and circulation, mimicking the speech that is driven by the blood's pulse, quickened by rage or fear, slowed by grief or lust. In the year 2000, when readers of poetry are so few that p...
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