she [Carol Ann Duffy] said. "I wouldn't write a poem if it felt forced. But if something occurred at a public or political moment, and it genuinely felt truthful to me, then I would do it." So far, she's stuck to her guns, limiting herself to a handful of offerings that have included pithy lines on MPs' expenses and a visionary, transfixed war poem on the death of the first world war veteran Henry Allingham and this week a caustically reworked "Twelve Days of Christmas".from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: Christmas roundup: poetry books
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