Does it come at the beginning of a poem or the end?PF [Paul Farley:] It often signals the home stretch, I always think, this discovery, and it takes you in an unpredictable direction. Instead of steamrolling ahead with what you want to say, things take this gorgeous turn, and you're suddenly being shown the way. I'm thinking more and more that poetry is an escape hatch. You're thinking from line one, "How am I going to get out of this?" As soon as you've set it up, you're already doing a Houdini. The whole thing is an exit strategy.
from The Guardian: In conversation: Mark Haddon and Paul Farley
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