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The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.

God help us both if this is summer.
The sun shines all day and all night
but it has no warmth, no light, no colour.

I'd got to a point where I wanted a break.

We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks.

I'm on page 12 of 80 of Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus: Waves were never the tide but ripples, spawned by moon-coloured ships of war.

The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous.

In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.

Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge.

You get up one day and somebody has taken one of the mountains away

We also pass a farmer in his yard, power-washing a donkey with a high-pressure hose.

I once swallowed my difference without water on an empty stomach.

And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

I wondered if people might not have had enough of Simon Armitage and wondered whether I hadn't had enough of Simon Armitage.

Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels.
Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart.

We don't know where print is going.