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.

Poets sing our human music for us.

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

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems

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

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

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.