What it’s really like to party with some of the biggest names in literature

Poet and artist Frieda Hughes writes about the experience of ditching her leg brace and venturing back out into the world after a period of injury-induced isolation: ‘I had quietly disengaged / From the post-operative leg brace, / Driven myself to the city, left my crutches in the car / And, for one brief evening, remembered London

I watched them dissolve slowly / Into their gins and prosecco (Getty Images)

THE FABER PARTY POEM

I was invited to their summer garden gathering,

Where editors polished their authors