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

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

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.

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

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales

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

She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there; a scale which balanced poetry and prayer.