If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.
2012 has been an extraordinary year for our country. We cheered our Queen to the rafters with the Jubilee, showed the world what we're made of by staging the most spectacular Olympic and Paralympic Games ever and - let's not forget - punched way above our weight in the medals table.
If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.

