To celebrate 60 years of Queen Elizabeth sitting on the throne, Carol Ann Duffy invited leading poets to recall a year in verse.
From a piece in the Guardian...
1962 Brian Patten
Sixteen
Sixteen, Rimbaud and Whitman my heroes
"PS I Love You" playing in the loud cafés
In a Canning Street basement Adrian Henri
Painting The Entry of Christ into Liverpool
Adrift in an attic, in an ark buoyant with longings,
A map drawn by Garcia Lorca open before me
There was nothing that was not possible
Nothing that could not be reinvented
Ah poetry, at sixteen
Words smelled of tulips and marigolds
Their fumes made sentences
That the bees stole for themselves
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