Poets Deal In Writing About

I Grew Up In A Bookless House - My Parents Didn't Read Poetry, So If I Hadn't Had The Chance To Experience It At School I'd Never Have Experienced It. But I Loved English, And I Was Very Lucky In That I Had Inspirational English Teachers, Miss Scriven And Mr. Walker, And They Liked Us To Learn Poems By Heart, Which I Found I Loved Doing.

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.

For Me, Poetry Is The Music Of Being Human. And Also A Time Machine By Which We Can Travel To Who We Are And To Who We Will Become.

Poetry, Above All Is A Series Of Intense Moments ­ Its Power Is Not In Narrative. I'm Not Dealing With Facts, I'm Dealing With Emotion.

How Would You Prepare To Die On A Perfect April Evening?