Sarah Wimbush

Castaway Companions
Castaway poet Sarah Wimbush chooses poems by Ted Hughes, Liz Berry and Paul Bentley to take to a desert island

The Astronaut Who Came To Tea
by Sarah Wimbush — Theirs was a strange spacesuit. / Some wore garb the colour / of saffron, pimpernels, dirt-tracks, / girded themselves with sovereign / coinage and jaunty brims