Notes on a journey in winter across a wild landscape ... Armitage thinks Sir Gawain is crossing the Wirral. A poem for this very day, the solstice, the shortest day, what John Donne called the ...

Let’s celebrate the solstice with some wintery quotes and poems… ‘Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers.’ Khalil Gibran ‘Winter is the time for comfort, for good food ...

Susan Cooper's children's book The Shortest Day, released in 2019, is a celebration of light returning after the winter solstice. The text of the book is actually a poem she wrote in the 1970s for ...

the night of the winter solstice by getting all the family together, at the house of the oldest person, and eat nuts, pomegranates and watermelons, drink and read poetry. If you fancy bringing a ...

SIMON: For more than 40 years, people have been reading and performing Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day" to celebrate the winter solstice. COOPER: (Reading) And when the New Year's sunshine ...