Sarah Crossan: Why I write through verse, and why we fall out of love with poetry

Poetry belongs to everyone, so don’t let the academics scare you away by trying to foist reason on the rhyme.

Sarah Crossan has written her first novel for adults, Here is the Beehive. 

Last year my young daughter took a poetry book into school, so she could share her favourite rhymes with the teacher. 

When I collected her in the afternoon, she was sitting on a bench surrounded by other students, all of them chanting the refrain to a playful poem called ‘Zim Zam Zoom’ by James Carter.