Paul Will
Paul Will
chinese hoover
I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.
play next crash
I won't go up in a plane, but if a play crashes, I'll jump into the next one that comes along and take it up for a spin.
subtle repeats
Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.
buoys sometimes cliche
The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with
reading people reason
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry
use television rhyme
I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme
writing trying firsts
What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up
years judging lasts
Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England last year.
eye feet noses
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.
engagement poet edges
Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.
interesting chance destination
If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride.
political trying levels
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
want chimes
Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect
reading
I do a lot of readings.