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It Seems To Me The Structure Of The Quartets Is Too Imposed.

The Point Of Poetry Is To Be Acutely Discomforting, To Prod And Provoke, To Poke Us In The Eye, To Punch Us In The Nose, To Knock Us Off Our Feet, To Take Our Breath Away.

Obviously One Of The Things That Poets From Northern Ireland And Beyond - Had To Try To Make Sense Of Was What Was Happening On A Day-to-day Political Level.

There's Very Little Of The Intentional About The Business Of Writing Poetry, As Least As Far As I Can See.

Of Course, You Can't Legislate For How People Are Going To Read.