Danak, Elwira

Elwira Danak is a poet and she lives with Peanut in the beautiful (and at times blustery) Scotland. She wrote her first ever poem at the age of eight when she decided to take revenge on her parents for not getting her a dog. She immortalised them in the very serious Ballad of the Dog and was very pleased to see them cry ...with laughter. Oh the revenge of the rhyming word! Decades later she started writing Letters to Peanut during sleepless nights, first when she was pregnant (backache and overzealous bladder anyone?) and then continued until her child's first birthday. When she is not writing...