I would love to read some of their poems. I would have been chuffed to be led by such an intelligent and passionate writer with so many interesting things to say.
There is SO much in the mundane. Some of the best passage sin literature have been written about characters in banal domestic moments alit with revelation. We don't need to be somewhere exotic and 'interesting' to write - although that can inspire as well!
Good writing is like good photography. It draws attention to the unnoticeable details we are incapable of being able to normally observe. Then it links them to unexpected things, or takes us on a journey to stranger places. I have too much I want to read.
More Dick, more Mieville, LeGuin.