Poets sing our human music for us.

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

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

It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

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