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 ...

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 ...