Peter Davison

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in…

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many…

The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because…

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers…

I like poems that are little games…

But for me, being an editor I’ve been an editor of all kinds of books…

Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to…

They need to learn poetry. They don’t need to learn about poetry. They don’t need…

Poetry is composing for the breath…

My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they’re embarrassed that I write…

Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of…

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me…

Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as…

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any…

There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory…