Light Unlocked: Christmas Card Poems

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Pub. Date: 2006-07-01
Publisher(s): Dufour Editions
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Summary

A delightful anthology of poems sent by many contemporary writers as Christmas cards.

Table of Contents

Foreword 7(4)
House of Winter
George Mackay Brown
11(1)
The Christmas Life
Wendy Cope
12(1)
Summer Time Ends
Alan Brownjohn
13(1)
Snow
Edwin Brock
14(1)
Advent Calendar
Rowan Williams
15(1)
Wings
John Mole
16(1)
Carol of the Birds
Anne Stevenson
17(1)
Christmas Circulars
Carole Satyamurti
18(1)
Cock Robin and Cutty Wren
Hugh Lupton
19(1)
'I feel the rush of Gabriel's wings'
Michael Symmons Roberts
20(1)
The Annunciation
Rhian Gallagher
21(1)
The Glimmering
Lawrence Sail
22(1)
Fragment
Matt Simpson
23(1)
Pages from 'A Sussex Calendar'
Judith Kazantzis
24(1)
The Dada Christmas Catalogue
Roger McGough
25(1)
The Stone Hare
Gillian Clarke
26(1)
Christmas Holiday
P.J. Kavanagh
27(1)
Holly
Seamus Heaney
28(1)
Lamp
George Mackay Brown
29(1)
Christmas
Bernard O'Donoghue
30(1)
Tortoiseshells Overwintering
Anna Adams
31(1)
The Centipede
Glyn Hughes
32(1)
Shepherds
Gillian Clarke
33(1)
The Pattern
Michael Longley
34(1)
Our Pear-Tree
Lucy Newlyn
35(1)
Advent: Greenwich Reach
Julian May
36(1)
from Pumpkins
Sally Festing
37(1)
Prima Nix
Pauline Stainer
38(1)
Empress Sadako Considers Snow
Julie O'Callaghan
39(1)
Under the Avalanche
Catherine Byron
40(1)
The Computer's Second Christmas Card
Edwin Morgan
41(1)
Christmas in Envelopes
U.A. Fanthorpe
42(1)
Skater
Peter Scupham
43(1)
Listening
Herbert Lomas
44(1)
Weavers
David Keefe
45(1)
'Would they had stay'd'
Seamus Heaney
46(1)
'Heureux qui, comme Ulysse...'
Edward Lucie-Smith
47(1)
News from Norfolk
Caroline Gilfillan
48(1)
Richard Long's Buzzard
Tony Curtis
49(1)
On Seeing a Christian Gardener at Eighty
Patric Dickinson
50(1)
Eve
Matthew Francis
51(1)
Dawn
Richard Burns
52(1)
Hyacinths
David Constantine
53(1)
from Caedmon
Myra Schneider
54(1)
December 25th, 12 noon
Alison Brackenbury
55(1)
Eavesdropping
Robert Minhinnick
56(1)
The Heart-in-Waiting
Kevin Crossley-Holland
57(1)
Round
John Fuller
58(1)
Nativity
John Greening
59(1)
The Thorn
Helen Dunmore
60(1)
A Slovak Christmas Tree
James Sutherland-Smith
61(1)
Christmas Rosé
Michael Henry
62(1)
Promise
Jackie Kay
63(1)
Oranges at Christmas Time
Elizabeth Bewick
64(1)
Mary's Carol
Peter Dale
65(1)
Winter Wings
George Szirtes
66(1)
St Ita's Lullaby
James Harpur
67(1)
Speaking of Angels
Rodney Pybus
68(1)
The Sibyls in Amiens Cathedral
Ruth Fainlight
69(1)
Mithras and the Milkman
Alison Brackenbury
70(1)
Beagles
Paul Muldoon
71(1)
An Austrian Christmas
John Greening
72(1)
Sunt Lacrimae Rerum
Vernon Scannell
73(1)
Childermas
Paul Hyland
74(1)
At the Pantomime
John Mole
75(1)
Newton's Notebook (1667)
Stuart Henson
76(1)
Angel
Vernon Hale
77(1)
Our Lady of Indigo
Pauline Stainer
78(1)
God's Image
Jane Griffiths
79(1)
Happy Everyday
Benjamin Zephaniah
80(1)
Bird Psalm
U.A. Fanthorpe
81(1)
Flight into Egypt
Peter Scupham
82(1)
A Faggot
John Moat
83(1)
New Year
Robert Wells
84(1)
Tracking
Stuart Henson
85(1)
Christmas Cards
Lotte Kramer
86(1)
New Year's Day at Lepe
Jeremy Hooker
87(1)
Bluebell Time
Michael Henry
88(1)
Rain
George MacBeth
89(1)
Peredelkino
John Burnside
90(1)
Bibliographical note 91

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