"Poetry may be written on paper, but it’s an oral art.A good poem satisfies the ear .It creates a story or picture tha…"

"Rhythm and repetition of sounds, words and phrases make spoken poetry sound different to ordinary discourse."

"Reading a poem aloud by someone who understands it, can be a crucial experience, but better yet is reading it aloud o…"

"Reciting a poem aloud, you are not like an actor, rather you come to understand, then to be, the voice of the poem it…"

"Central also to reading verse aloud is the handling of enjambment, ..the interplay of line-end and sentence-flow."

"Contrastive stress is very important in English, as poems are full of invisible italicised contrasts of this kind."

"Not being a philosopher I've had to work through my feelings and puzzlements in poems."

"A teacher (of poetry) has to know and feel what poetry is , and be able - and this is crucial- to read it aloud effec…"

"I revise very little. I always write in long hand and revise when I type. I test them out when I read them aloud."

"Great poems are all fables about life."