Carol Ann Duffy continues her series of poems chosen from her shelves to comfort and inspire us in isolation. Here, a work that travels back before the start of civilisation
Born in New York City, Billy Collins is arguably the most popular poet in America, where he served as poet laureate from 2001 to 2003. Much loved in the UK, too, he was described by the late Michael Donaghy as “a rare amalgam of accessibility and intelligence”. Possessed of a surreal and darkly comic imagination, Collins is courteous to his readers, keen to take us with him on his imaginary wanderings, but always delivering so much more than entertainment, and prompting us to think below the surface of our lives.
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