Advent : a carol / Patric Dickinson --
Advent 1955 / John Betjeman --
Season's greetings / Carol Shields --
Pilot / Richard Edwards --
The coming of the cold / Theodore Roethke --
Somewhere around Christmas / John Smith --
Christmas landscape / Laurie Lee --
Sir Winter / Jean Kenward --
Christmas at Four Winds Farm / Maureen Haselhurst --
little tree / E.E. Cummings --
The Christmas tree / C. Day Lewis --
Christmas light / May Sarton --
The Christmas life / Wendy Cope --
The Christmas burglar / Jackie Kay --
Christmas at sea / Robert Louis Stevenson --
Hill Christmas / R.S. Thomas --
A Christmas childhood / Patrick Kavanagh --
Christmas / George Herbert --
Advice from Poor Robin's Almanack / Anon. --
A Christmas poem / Wendy Cope --
Carol / John Whitworth --
Christmas in the doghouse / John Hegley --
Winter festival / Julie O'Callaghan --
Real life Christmas card / Norman MacCaig --
Carol / Kenneth Grahame --
Under the mistletoe / Countee Cullen --
Mistletoe / Walter de la Mare --
Planting mistletoe / Ruth Pitter --
The mistletoe bough / Thomas Haynes Bayly --
December / John Heath-Stubbs --
Christmas market / Mike Harding --
Christmas shopping / Louis MacNeice --
Moonless darkness stands between / Gerard Manley Hopkins --
Joseph / U.A. Fanthorpe --
The thorn / Helen Dunmore --
Sailor's carol / Charles Causley --
Carol for the last Christmas Eve / Norman Nicholson --
Christmas Eve at sea / John Masefield --
The eve of Christmas / James Kirkup --
December music / Winfield Townley Scott --
How to paint a perfect Christmas / Miroslav Holub --
All the days of Christmas / Phyllis McGinley --
Merry Christmas / Leigh Hunt --
Christmas Eve / Patricia Beer --
Christmas in envelopes / U.A. Fanthorpe --
Christmas card / Ted Hughes --
Santa's new idea / Anon. --
The waiting game / John Mole --
Reindeer report / U.A. Fanthorpe --
Sandy's letter to Santa Claus / Irene Rawnsley --
Christmas secrets / Aileen Fisher --
Christmas triolet / Wendy Cope.
The mouse and the Xmas tree / Matthew Sweeney --
Christmas bells / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
Christmas bells / John Mole --
Christmas / John Betjeman --
The lodging / George Mackay Brown --
Day in darkness / Richard Crashaw --
The ox-and-the-ass's story / Elma Mitchell --
What the donkey saw / U.A. Fanthorpe --
The angels for the nativity of our Lord / William Drummond --
Christmas Day / Andrew Young --
Shepherd boy / Pamela Holmes --
The other shepherd / John Mole --
Shepherd / Peter Howard --
Shepherds' carol / Norman Nicholson --
BC : AD / U.A. Fanthorpe --
Kings came riding / Charles Williams --
Journey of the Magi / T.S. Eliot --
The adoration of the magi / Christopher Pilling --
They came to an inn / George Mackay Brown --
The Jesus room / Christopher Woodland --
The Christmas star / John Corben --
The crib / Robert Finch --
Christmas traffic / U.A. Fanthorpe --
Christmas caves / Helen Dunmore --
Now thrice welcome Christmas! / George Wither --
Around the glowing hearth / John Clare --
Christmas / Diana Hendry --
The silent knight / Matthew Sweeney --
Ghost story / Dylan Thomas.
The animals' carol / Charles Causley --
Minstrel's song / Ted Hughes --
A cradle song / William Blake --
Carol / Norman Nicholson --
Nativitie / John Donne --
A Christmas carol / G.K. Chesterton --
The wicked fairy at the manger / U.A. Fanthorpe --
I saw a stable / Mary Elizabeth Coleridge --
That the great angell-blinding light / Richard Crashaw --
Christmas Day / Brian Moses --
Meditation on the Nativity / Elizabeth Jennings --
Turkeys observed / Seamus Heaney --
Talking turkeys!! / Benjamin Zephaniah --
Table manners in 1476 / John Lydgate --
Christmas Day / Roy Fuller --
Under the tree / John Mole --
from Christmas in Africa / Jeni Couzyn --
Afterthought / Elizabeth Jennings --
St Stephen's Day / Patric Dickinson --
Well, so that is that / W.H. Auden --
The Christmas tree / John Walsh --
Balloons / Sylvia Plath --
Joseph and Jesus / Robert Graves --
After Christmas / Michael Hamburger --
Never again / Harri Webb --
Innocent's song / Charles Causley --
A ballad of Christmas / Walter de la Mare --
For Rachel : Christmas 1965 / Adrian Mitchell --
Whatever next? / Anthony Stuart.
The day after the day after Boxing Day / Paul Cookson --
Adrian Henri's talking after Christmas blues / Adrian Henri --
Nothingmas Day / Adrian Mitchell --
The old year / John Clare --
Folding and unfolding / Michael Richards --
New Year resolutions / June Crebbin --
New Year song / Ted Hughes --
Epiphany poem / George Mackay Brown --
Ceremony upon Candlemas Eve / Robert Herrick --
At Candlemas / Charles Causley --
Behold I stand / Gerard Kelly --
The gate of the year / M. Louise Haskins --
Snowdrops / George MacBeth.
