The winter landscape at Christmas, the story of the Nativity, the celebrations of the season, and the coming of the New Year-these are explored through more tha

Christmas is both a holiday and a holy day, and from the start it has been associated with poetry, from the song of the seraphim above the manger to the cherish

‘If poems were gifts, and in many ways they are, children will find plenty to absorb and amuse them in this bulging stocking of an anthology.’ Roger McGough

A poem about the visit that Santa Claus pays to the children of the world during the night before every Christmas.

A late-flowering poet who was the imaginative voice of the chronically ignored and a witty sceptic of conventional thinking.