Poetry for Christmas
| By: | Orna Ross |
| Publisher: | Font Publications |
| Published: | December 2013 |
| Pages: | 54 |
| Categories: | Poetry |
| Language: | English |
| Available as: | Paperback, Ebook |
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The mid-winter holiday provides the perfect space to indulge the pleasure of poetry and in this pamphlet, you’ll find a poem for each of the twelve days of that holiday season. All these Christmas poems circle around the story we’ve been telling for 2000 years about what happened in Bethlehem on a certain 25th December. Some of them reassert that story, some challenge it, some see it as purely symbolic — but all are engaged with the deeper questions that underwrite it. The poets included in this slim volume are: WH Auden, John Betjeman, TS Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Dan Holloway, Patrick Kavanagh, Mary Oliver, Anne Porter, Adrienne Rich, Anne Sexton, Christopher Smart, WB Yeats -- and there's a "bonus" poem from Orna Ross. A perfect stocking filler -- or gift to self. Indulge and enjoy.
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