I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.
From Andrew Motion
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.
If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.
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.
I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.
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