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The New Welsh Review mentions the ‘coarse vitality’ in your latest collection, Red Devon; this is evident from the first poem in the book and gave me the impression that you wanted readers to know from the outset that these would not be bucolic English countryside poems. Was that a concern for you?...

... and saying it. Is too much poetry being published?

Hugo Williams, judging the 147 entries for the Forward Prize 2010, wrote in the Guardian that “an awful lot of them seemed to be published just because they existed, really."...