Poems to get us through: the ghosts of cricketing summers knock Kit Wright for six

The Roller in the Woods by Kit Wright is this week’s choice, as Carol Ann Duffy continues her series of poems chosen from her shelves to comfort us in isolation

Well-loved as a poet for both children and adults, Kit Wright lives in London and is a superb performer of his work. He can be comic and satirical, occasionally bawdy, but his poems are often elegies to what we have lost without noticing; informed with a distinctly English music which stretches back through Betjeman to Hardy.