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 stars are filming us for no one.

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

If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.

It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

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.