In Massachusetts, in New England, across the nation and around the globe, people really embrace Kennedy. So it's not unnatural for us to look for an energetic vibrant candidate again.

With the Democratic National Convention coming to Boston this July, we wanted to celebrate American traditions of politics and our nation's history and John Kennedy's run for the White House.

As Wyatt explains, it's clearly John F. Kennedy. But he also was reminded of Robert Kennedy when he did the painting and of anyone who runs for office. So it's sort of a celebration of American politics and those who partake in public service.

People in England are so bloody nosy

It is doubtful whether the people of southern England have even yet realized how much introspection there is going on all the time in the Five Towns.

I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.