Poets sing our human music for us.

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.

If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

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

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.