And Farley again here, interviewed by Stammers...

Well, the gap, or the shortfall if you like, between mediated experience and firsthand, physical experience, is an interesting space to get into, to explore. When I read my poems now, I’m aware that’s one of the things I’ve been trying to do. And I still find foreignness everywhere. There’s a couple of phrases from the poem you mention (‘Thorns’) where I seem to have set out my stall earlier on: ‘the eye being drawn’ or ‘my ear being led’; I’m interested in the difference between what comes in at the eye and the ear. You know that line of Coleridge’s: ‘I see, not feel, how beautiful they are’? I don’t know about making the world we know unfamiliar, that feels a bit over-familiar to me! I’m never aware of myself doing that....