The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar is the test of their power.

I wanted to reimagine the role in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents events preoccupations and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.