But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril

But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.

I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.

I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.

In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite as interesting as we are but vulnerable to us because we are cleverer in more destructive ways.

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.