The poetry is not intended to satisfy some elite notion of poetic style, but hopefully manages to be interesting enough that people want to keep reading it. I must confess that so much that passes for good writing leaves me cold, it says nothing to me or my life; too much of the poetry we are presented with is really a safe middle class version of the world concerned with the petty anxieties of people that have nothing to say. No wonder poetry sells so poorly, no wonder most ordinary people wouldn't be seen dead reading or writing a poem. We have been swindled, this great art form has been stifled beneath the aspirations of a small group of powerful people who really have no connection with it other than as a means of making money and reputations.

The next book should be out by 2009, but until then I recommend "Open Hand" and "Sometimes Love makes It Through" as my personal favourites and most satisfying books so far.

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