"Just to finish: Ted Hughes, who I know it is not politically correct to like - and I am a feminist ... but you know, I think he's a pretty amazing person, I thought Sylvia Plath was a pretty amazing person too - Ted Hughes said poetry belongs to the people who read it, in the same way that a house doesn't belong to the builders, the house belongs to the people who live in it. These poems are for you, if you want to read them, to make of them what you will. Thank you."

Tasmanian Poetry Festival, October 2012
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