THE FACE OF MODERN POETRY

Best-selling poet Donna Ashworth invites HELLO! into her new home to talk celebrations, success and her Second Act

MELANIE MACLEOD

Best-selling poet Donna Ashworth has always had a way with words – even if there was a time when she had forgotten all about it. The Sunday Times best-selling author, whose most recent book To the Women has just spent another week at the top of the book charts, has more than 430,000 followers on Instagram and has won celebrity fans such as Davina McCall and Fearne Cotton. But she never set out to make poetry her career. Before 2020, she worked as a journalist and ran a children’s play centre with her husband Robert, a former producer on Coronation Street, as well as singing on cruise ships. Poetry, however, had been in the background since she was a teenager. “I wasn’t aware of it until I found my own…

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