I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

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

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

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal

How would you prepare to die on a perfect April evening?

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.

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