I am following the Dalai Lama on Twitter

But the Dalai Lama is not yet following me.

That’s fine. Things are as they are. I do not feel bitter.

Enlightenment is his thing. Reciprocity?

Not so much. He is a spiritual big-hitter

And I write detective novels. It’s easy to see

Why I’m following the Dalai Lama on Twitter

And the Dalai Lama is not yet following me.

from ‘The Dalai Lama on Twitter’

Sophie Hannah is one of Britain’s best-loved poets, a disarmingly witty, sharp-eyed chronicler of everyday life and its peculiarities. She is also an internationally successful author of psychological crime fiction, and has written the first new Hercule Poirot novel to be authorised by the Agatha Christie estate. This book collects all of her previous collections of verse and also includes new and uncollected poems.