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

I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales

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

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.

The stars are filming us for no one.

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.