Well, you've heard the rumours, and it turns out they're true. Cordite's SATSQ is back with a vengeance! Please consider the responses of our first 'victim' – poet, writer and raconteur, Derek Motion!

1. Where are you?

On a couch. But I was on a different couch, in the same room, when I first read this question, when I thought to myself 'I'll do this tomorrow'.

2. Why?

I often utilise a couch. But chairs are good too.

3. What's the point of line breaks?

Line-breaks add a slapstick element to text: man trips over banana-skin, etc…

4. Do you know the way to San Jose?

If I google it. Because my brain is a wasteland.

5. If you could choose one contemporary musician to interpret your poetry, who would it be?

Thom Yorke.

6. If you could be one contemporary musician who would you be?

One of the Veronicas (it doesn't matter which one).

7. What's the stupidest question you've ever been asked?

What do you think the most random number is?

8. You have been commissioned by the Prime Minister to write a preamble for the Australian constitution. How do you begin? (Just one sentence please)

Mateship: a world away from chumship. (I worked the word 'cunt' into my original sentence but had second thoughts and edited it out – turns out I am not as radical as I thought I was, nor as snappy.)

9. Would you like to buy a bottle of air?

Yes, but I mean, how good is the air? Where did you get it? How old is it? Can my mate – he's an environmental scientist – come to your place and check it out, before I hand over the money?

10. Discuss.

This last one isn't a question. I guess I could discuss that, were I so inclined. But then maybe I'm falling into a trap, and this is just what you want me to say: something quick and clever. Well, I'm not that predictable. Maybe I should just leave number 10 blank. No, that won't do, it would just seem like a html error. I know, I'll discuss my childhood. Once I had this friend and his parents wouldn't let him play with me. They changed their minds when the teacher told them I was actually quite intelligent, despite my tendency to throw rocks.

Besides being a poet, write and raconteur, Derek is also the director of Booranga Writers' Centre, a parent and a PhD student. Visit his blog today!