Frieda Hughes: After divorce and grief, the gym made everything feel a bit better

In the sixth instalment of her weekly poetry column, Frieda Hughes explains how the gym can be a place to exercise more than just the body...

(Frieda Hughes)

I’ve been fat, I’ve been thin, and I’ve been everything in between;

I’ve been a swimmer, but hated getting wet and all the business of drying hair,

I’ve been a rider, but without a horse became a walker, although I lacked the will to walk