I've nothing against the Queen personally: I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time.

Write whatever you like!

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

Walk on air against your better judgement.

The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.

So hope for a great sea-change on the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore is reachable from here. Believe in miracles and cures and healing wells.

The whole relationship between a writer's spiritual/emotional condition and the kind of wordstuff and form-making that's going on in his work is an interesting one. When I was an undergraduate, there was a glib notion around that there was no reason to suppose a bad man could be a good writer.