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

But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

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

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.

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.