Clive James: 'None of us realised that the bushfires and floods were climate change'

At our weatherboard infants' school in the bush, the memorably severe Miss Cashman had to get us to safety when the bushfire came Our poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, writes poems that must be blessings for schoolteachers, because almost every line has a splinter of brilliance in it, and even the most resistant pupil would notice a fragment of language jumping into life. Her poem called Mrs Midas evokes the difficulties for a wife whose husband turns things to gold when he touches them. They can'...