I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.

My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy

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

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems

How would you prepare to die on a perfect April evening?