Jennifer Horgan: This Christmas, I want what a screen can never give me — the joy of looking at those I love 

I am going to focus on celebrating basic human interaction, something technology can never replace

Poet Patrick Kavanagh tells us, in his own way, that we need to return to simplicity, come back from a knowledge that is useless in certain ways.

I was asked to read a poem in celebration of winter at Cork’s City Library this month. It was part of the closing ceremony for One City One Book, organised by the wonderful Patricia Looney.

I sat with my parents that morning, reading poems aloud. I didn’t have to read my own work, so I looked to Ireland’s rich canon for options.