Poets Sing Our Human Music For Us.

I See The Shape Of The Poem Before I Start Writing, And The Writing Is Just The Process Of Arriving At The Shape.

Having A Child Takes You Back To All Those Parts Of Your Own Childhood That You Had Hidden Away.

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.

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.

Poets Sing Our Human Music For Us.