But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.

Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.

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

Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.

Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.