"Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet."
"Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry."
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Source: 'Green Mountain, Black Mountain' (1982)
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