In the end, all solutions are temporary.
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.
Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.
I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.
When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on
The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments the political one, certainly, but also that of the wider poetry world itself. It changed poetry for ever in the UK,. . . It led to readings all over the country. You suddenly got more women reading and publishing poems, as well as gay guys and poets from all over the world. Until that time, published poetry had been very university-based white, male, middle-class. We were trying to break poetry out of its academic confines.
The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
George Reeves was really Superman in my eyes. For him to come on the set and be there was a treat for me.
Marriage is not just about love and living together. It's much more complicated, especially when you are going to be making a family.
When I get a cold sore, I put Carmex on it, because Carmex is supposed to alleviate cold sores. I don't know if it does help, but it will make them more shiny and noticeable. It's like cold-sore-highlighter. Maybe they could come up with an arrow that heals cold sores.