December 2009
Another Christmas. I love Christmas. I have always loved Christmas. I always will love Christmas.
Why? Three reasons. The Personal. The Spiritual. The Animal.
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October 2009
Autumn is here; leaves, wind, rain, red berries, blackberries, and mysterious presents of shot birds on my back step at home in the country.
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September 2009
Am I really 50? Yes, it has happened.
How? All you have to do is stand still I guess, but I prefer the other route; outrun time.
Remember that fabulous Andrew Marvell poem 'To his Coy Mistress'? If not, better read it; it is a very good seduction poem, but at the end he says, THUS THOUGH WE CANNOT MAKE OUR SUN/ STAND STILL, YET WE WILL MAKE HIM RUN.
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July 2009
I am feeling pleased because the BBC has greenlit my little show for kids, so I'm writing this on a train to Macclesfield where we are about to go into production, filming in August, so bang goes the summer holiday.
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June 2009
This is a late update because I reckoned that if one more thing dropped into my life I would capsize - not in a bad way, but anyway, end up in the water swimming for it.
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May 2009
I am happy as a bear in honey about this. This is the first woman Poet Laureate ever, and something to be celebrated. A few years ago I did an interview with Carol Ann for The Times, which is archived on the site, but which you can access HERE.
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April 2009
I am writing this on my way back to Paris where I seem to have found, that is, I am continuing to find, something like a second self - except that this second self isn't an alternative self; it's a self that folds inside the usual one, and gives it a little bit more stretch.
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March 2009
It's March - it's almost spring. That means life. That means love, because they are bound together.
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January 2009
I am sorry the site updates are late this month - in fact it's not all here, but I wanted to put in the column and the poem, and to explain a few things.
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