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

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

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

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

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

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

It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.