More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the...
I wanted to reimagine the role in a way that was respectful of its...
Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding...
In a general way I want to be a kind of flag-waver bunting hanger-up...
I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums...
Poetry is at the centre of my life too emotionally speaking and...
Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether the...
While also importantly not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of...
I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person even for the...
I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by...
There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where...
You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is...
I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of...
Don't fear anything for your letters they are burnt one by one and I hope...
I think however that so long as our present economic and national systems...
Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home or we...
I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women....
What I think we fear is rapid pronounced and uncontrollable changes to...
Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting...
When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did you fear that you'll...