Thursday, June 24, 2010

Educating a poet

I caught a very brief interview with poet Matt Harvey on RTÉ Radio1 this morning. Turns out he spent part of his childhood in Ireland, where his father was working as a set designer for RTÉ.

And one of his abiding memories from that time is of being taught by his baby sitter to sing How Much Is that Doggie In The Window – backwards.

That explains a lot.