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• ‟ I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another.

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• ‟ I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.

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• ‟ I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.

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• ‟ Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.

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• ‟ I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.

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• ‟ There are plenty of examples of people who have had busy lives out there in the world, trying to do good, and written very well at the same time.

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• ‟ I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.

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• ‟ More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

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