First, position your owl...

Poet and artist Frieda Hughes talks fondly of the painstaking process of taking an intimate portrait of one of her beloveds – Wyddfa the snowy owl

‘Feathered whiteness against a blanket of red, adorn him with a necklace’ (Frieda Hughes)

Christmas past was a two-week break in which time to relax was shredded

By the writing of cards, because my love of others needed them to know.

I sacrificed my holidays in order to compose messages to many,