Frieda Hughes: A car crash gave me new perspective

When you’re forced to slow down, creative pursuits can bloom, writes poet Frieda Hughes. So why – now that Welsh speed limits have ground down from 30 to 20mph – am I feeling this impatient fury?

A driver, texting, drifted, Or missed a mirror-check on manoeuvring, and blocked the M40 Long enough for me to sketch two rabbits and an owl (Frieda Hughes)

TRAVELLING COMPARISONS

More miles in a week mop up life, as if life was a spilt liquid to be wrung into a drain.

London, again, was a four-hour drive into dawn, and a seven-hour return