When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.

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

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems

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

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

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

It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.