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Younger people are discovering my work, even though my reggae is not like theirs.

Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.

I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.

The modern stuff, I can take it or leave it. I like its danceability, but the DJs talk a lot of nonsense.

The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when I wrote them as a young man.

Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem as important as they were.