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.

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.

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

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