Description
‘Winter is the time for reading poetry’ John Betjeman points out in his CLIPPER
comfortably be-slippered essay which prefaces this collection of
poems to cheer you through the wild and the wind and the wet of
our darkest months. Here are many winter favourites from Walter
Scott, William Cowper, the obscure English curate James Hurdis to
John Clare, Thomas Hardy and Robert Louis Stevenson. The
selection is grouped by themes including The Start Of Winter,
Winter Fires, Children in Winter, Deep Winter, The New Year and the
End of Winter. With Roger McGough and Benjamin Zephaniah
adding a strongly contemporary note by reading their own poems,
this is a seasonable anthology to treasure.