I Think The Dangers Are Different Now.

It's Always Good When Women Win Things In Fiction Because It Tends To Be More Male-dominated, Unlike Poetry, Which Is More Equal

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

You Can Find Poetry In Your Everyday Life, Your Memory, In What People Say On The Bus, In The News, Or Just What's In Your Heart.

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.

Poets Deal In Writing About Feelings And Trying To Find The Language And Images For Intense Feelings.