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"When Motion and Morrison edited the Penguin Book of British Poetry, we were totally omitted. There's been a lot of that," he says. "Those years when Motion was editor of Poetry Review, and Craig Raine was poetry editor at Faber ... I felt we were always in the position of having to defend ourselves. We got cheesed off at being referred to as small-town Mantovanis, or the pop brigade. I suppose because we didn't do English at university, or because the poetry I was writing could be appreciated by my mother or my aunties. It came out of a sort of naivety." There is naivety, too, though of a characteristically charming sort, in his stated belief in "the brotherhood of poetry. I felt, with my first poem, that I had entered this brotherhood. Which turned out not to be the case."