If We Think Of What's Up Ahead,

I Always Say That I'll Have A Go And See Whether The Poem Works And If It Does, Then Fine.

Between 9am And 3pm Is When I Work Most Intensely

Like The Sand And The Oyster, It's A Creative Irritant. In Each Poem, I'm Trying To Reveal A Truth, So It Can't Have A Fictional Beginning.

I Like To Think That I'm A Sort Of Poet For Our Times.

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.