I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales

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

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

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

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

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

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