I Get Up At 5.30am,

Poems Are A Hotline To Our Hearts, And We Forget This Emotional Power At Our Peril

I Am A Vigilant Monarchist. I Want To See Things Evolve. The Direction The Monarchy Seems To Be Moving In - Towards A More Mainland-european Model - Is One I Would Feel Sympathetic About.

I Get Up At 5.30am, Sluice Myself And Have Two Weetabix And Some Mint Tea, Before Starting To Write By 6am.

Honor The Miraculousness Of The Ordinary.

But In A Lot Of Ways My Poems Are Very Conventional, And It's No Big Deal For Me To Write A Poem In Either Free Verse Or Strict Form; Modern Poets Can, And Do, Do Both.