Every year during National Poetry Day week, the Scottish Poetry Library invited a poet to write a daily blog, and to answer questions from readers. Anyone could ask the poet a question - children, adults, teachers, whole classes or schools. The results are unique insight into the working life of poets.

Diana Hendry on socks, dreaming, and imagination medicine… Sometimes I dream a line of a poem - some words that sound surprising and unexpected. Writing a poem can be a bit like dreaming when you're awake. All sorts of thoughts and feelings and strange ideas can come into your head (if you allow them) and then when the dreaming part is over, you can work out what the poem wants to say…
Gerry Cambridge on encounters with swallows and voles, blank sheets of paper, pens and science… What fascinates me are connections, transformations, the way everything is constantly being changed into something else: an apple to thoughts in someone's head, air into a jig on a mouth organ, something that happened 30 years ago lighting up my brain cells and being changed into a poem…