...in a good poem the poet disappears. That's what the struggle with language is all about. The point is that in the finished poem you don't lay yourself bare. You create a strongbox of words. - Vicki Feaver

I hope to write poetry that uses the full keyboard, claiming its full range of method and subject. - Sean O'Brien

not a thing no one will stop me I've got to go / down to the wild sea - 'Sea Wind', Tom Paulin