The poet laureate on her deep shame at not having read Don Quixote and always laughing at Cold Comfort Farm
The book I am currently reading
The Poem: Lyric, Sign, Metre by Don Paterson. Reading it, your estimation of your own IQ incrementally diminishes. There are diagrams. Also Jay Bernard’s Ted Hughes award-winning collection Surge: Side A.
The book that changed my life
Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Stop Smoking– about 30 years ago. Hurrah!
