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.

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely

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.

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

Time hates love, wants love poor,/but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.

You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue.