Carol Ann Duffy

Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.

I didn't really grow up on hip-hop. Ella Fitzgerald and the old school jazz divas are more my comfort zone.