Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.

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.

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.

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.

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales

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