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

If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.

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.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety.

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.