I Write Between 5.30am And 9.00. That

Like A Lot Of People, For A Long Time I Thought That The Road To Hell Is Paved With Bad Sequels.

I Read ' Treasure Island' For The First Time At University. And I Started To Notice Then How Unresolved Some Things Were. Later, I Realised That Stevenson Was Interested In Sequels, And I Wondered Whether He Would Have Gone Back To It Had He Lived Longer.

But In A Lot Of Ways My Poems Are Very Conventional, And It's No Big Deal For Me To Write A Poem In Either Free Verse Or Strict Form; Modern Poets Can, And Do, Do Both.

I Get Up At 5.30am, Sluice Myself And Have Two Weetabix And Some Mint Tea, Before Starting To Write By 6am.

I Write Between 5.30am And 9.00. That Way, I Hope I Carry Over Something From My Dream Time.