You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life.

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.