Comment from the book world in April 2025

Poets ‘are the great people in literature because they manage to gather thought and feeling, and intellectual and emotional intensity into words in a way that I haven't done in my writing...

I notice, going into bookshops, the brand of fantasy novel that has exactly the same way of beaming what it is to children: brighter and shinier...'

Michael Morpurgo, author of 30 books for children and young people, including War Horse, on publication of his second book for adults, Spring, in the Sunday Times Culture.