“There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.”
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And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.
But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.
Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.
They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.
