Frieda Hughes: On being an Australian poet watching the World Cup final with England fans

In the third installment of her weekly poetry column, Frieda Hughes writes about what it was like to watch the Lionesses lose to Spain with two English friends, surrounded by the healing hum of nature

The Lionesses finished as runners up in the Women’s World Cup (The FA via Getty Images)

Two friends up from London watched with bated breath

As the Lionesses lost the World Cup to Spain; twenty-two women

Tore up the pitch in search of a football, fighting for supremacy between penalties