Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.

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.

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

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

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.

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