Frieda Hughes: A poem a week

Exclusive: In her new weekly poetry column, Frieda Hughes offers us a stirring inaugural ode to nature, to the animal world, to creation – and to the act of writing itself

Frieda Hughes and her pet owl chicks (The Independent)

A poem a week, he said, peeled from my seven days

Like sticky fly-paper in which might be embedded an owl, or a garden,

A snake, ferret, or feeling of joy or despair – even a sleepless night. Or maybe