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.

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

I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life.

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

Time hates love, wants love poor,/but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.

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.