John Barton

You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.

The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight.

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.