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

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

The stars are filming us for no one.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

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.

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