Harold Pinter waxes political

Harold Pinter said he has given up writing plays and plans to focus his efforts on politics. Pinter, 74, has been an outspoken critic of British Prime Minister Tony Blair and opposed Britain’s involvement in the Iraq war.

In an interview with British Broadcasting Corp. radio that aired Monday, Pinter said: “I think I’ve stopped writing plays now, but I haven’t stopped writing poems.”

“My energies are going in different directions, certainly into poetry. But also ... I’m using a lot of energy more specifically about political states of affairs, which I think are very, very worrying as things stand.”

From Associated Press