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Mostly, when I travel, I want to represent my own work well and let others know how I feel about poetry being an important part of life.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with overexcited poets rather than pampered painters.

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

I think that a good deal of poetry and art gives us some sense of access to another's voice, perception, texture of thought, imagination. Sometimes it gives us better access to the strangeness in ourselves.

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others I'm working on.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.