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

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.

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

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.

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales

She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there; a scale which balanced poetry and prayer.

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