Shortly before he died, shockingly young, of cancer, Iain Banks revealed he had another string to his much-used bow. One of Britain's best-loved and most prolific novelists, Banks was a poet, too – in ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Irene Latham, who lives on a lake in rural Alabama. Irene has loved poetry since childhood when her father introduced her to poems by Shel Silverstein.