As poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy has written about contemporary events and issues and refused to be tied down to the traditional royal milestones. Her drawing is also pleasingly free and original. Here is a fox who knows all the angles Photograph: pr
First impressions can be deceptive. This could be a sketch of an elegant lady's fox fur stole. However the author's explanation is rather grimmer. 'I found this fox on top of a hedgerow on the farm,' he writes. 'Sleeping, I thought. But he was dead.' Photograph: pr
Ronald Blythe's fox, at full stretch and giving an anxious backward glance, is a fine example of what Oscar Wilde called the 'uneatable', and it is clear that the 'unspeakable' are in full pursuit and gaining on him Photograph: pr
A perfectly supercilious-looking fox created with just a few strokes. Those A-shaped eyebrows convey total disdain as Mr Fox looks down the single stroke of his nose. After years of going through dustbins he has no doubt acquired a low opinion of man. Or perhas he is simply passing judgment on someone's efforts at recycling. Photograph: pr
A fox in a Barbour and posh Hunter wellies – this is clearly a fox from the same country as Tamara Drewe and Gemma Bovery. He's obviously a bounder, probably often found skulking in a corner of the village pub cooking up devious plans Photograph: pr
The Booker prize-winning novelist gives us a portrait of Wayne Brush, the disreputable younger brother of debonair glove puppet Basil. He has been sacked from a series of jobs and has started a number of unsuccessful businesses. Now he has decided to cash in on the family name and become a stand-up comedian … Hen parties are his speciality Photograph: pr
Writer and publisher Diana Athill gives us an action picture, a moment captured as the fox is poised to attack. It could be a scene from Chaucer's Nonnes Preestes Tale with Chaunticleer, deceived by the fox's flattery, about to stand on his toes, flap his wings, close his eyes and crow. Photograph: pr
Robert Macfarlane, the award-winning travel writer, says of this image: 'It might be a fox; might be an aardvark …' We're going to settle for calling it a fox. Photograph: pr
What a well-fed and contented creature we have here from the creator of The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. It seems to be fox-trotting through the countryside away from the scene of the crime. Or if it's an urban fox, then it must be a frequenter of dustbins belong to the fattest of City fat cats Photograph: pr
This creature is known as the 'urbane' fox – elegant, sophisticated, sashaying through the moonlit countryside with food which it will serve to a few foxy friends at a very civilised dinner party Photograph: pr
