“Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.”
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If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.
It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.
