The Party is at Nick’s Tonight ‘To devote a life to poetry looks to most people like a decision to ignore the benefits of modern life, in particular the power of money to effect any meaningful progress. It looks suspiciously like sulking.’ — Hugo Williams, Times Literary Supplement, 18 April 2003 ‘Poetry has always attracted more than its fair share of the seriously unhinged.’ — Christina Patterson, The Independent, 10 May 2003