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LIGHT UNLOCKED: CHRISTMAS CARD POEMS

by Kevin Crossley-Holland; Lawrence Sail

Illustrated by John Lawrence

Published by The Enitharmon Press. 2005

Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper. A sparkling anthology consisting of poems sent by their authors, many of them well-known contemporary writers, as Christmas cards. Edited by Kevin Crossley-Holland and Lawrence Sail. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Gold coloured endpapers. B/w wood engravings. 96 pages.

Reprint in the same year as first publication. Cream pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby and lightly faded to spine.

ISBN: 1904634184
Stock no. 1830966

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Contents

  • Foreword
  • House of Winter George Mackay Brown
  • The Christmas Life Wendy Cope
  • Summer Time Ends Alan Brownjohn
  • Snow Edwin Brock
  • Advent Calendar Rowan Williams
  • Wings John Mole
  • Carol of the Birds Anne Stevenson
  • Christmas Circulars Carole Satyamurti
  • Cock Robin and Cutty Wren Hugh Lupton
  • 'I feel the rush of Gabriel's wings' Michael Symmons Roberts
  • The Annunciation Rhian Gallagher
  • The Glimmering Lawrence Sail
  • Fragment Matt Simpson
  • Pages from 'A Sussex Calendar' Judith Kazantzis
  • The Data Christmas Catalogue Roger McGough
  • The Stone Hare Gillian Clarke
  • Christmas Holiday PJ Kavanagh
  • Holly Seamus Heaney
  • Lamp George Mackay Brown
  • Christmas Bernard O'Donoghue
  • Tortoiseshells Overwintering Anna Adams
  • The Centipede Glyn Hughes
  • Shepherds Gillian Clarke
  • The Pattern Michael Longley
  • Our Pear-Tree Lucy Newlyn
  • Advent: Greenwich Reach Julian May
  • from Pumpkins Sally Festing
  • Prima Nix Pauline Stainer
  • Empress Sadako Considers Snow Julie O'Callaghan
  • Under the Avalanche Catherine Byron
  • The Computer's Second Christmas Card Edwin Morgan
  • Christmas in Envelopes UA Fanthorpe
  • Skater Peter Scupham
  • Listening Herbert Lomas
  • Weavers David Keefe
  • 'Would they had stay'd' Seamus Heaney
  • 'Heureux qui, comme Ulysse...' Edward Lucie-Smith
  • News from Norfolk Caroline Gilfillan
  • Richards Long's Buzzard Tony Curtis
  • On Seeing A Christian Garden at Eighty Patric Dickinson
  • Eve Matthew Francis
  • Dawn Richard Burns
  • Hyacinths David Constantine
  • from Caedmon Myra Schneider
  • December 25th, 12 noon Alison Brackenbury
  • Eavesdropping Robert Minhinnick
  • The Heart-in-Waiting Kevin Crossley-Holland
  • Round John Fuller
  • Nativity John Greening
  • The Thorn Helen Dunmore
  • A Slovak Christmas Tree James Sutherland-Smith
  • Christmas Rose Michael Henry
  • Promise Jackie Kay
  • Oranges at Christmas Time Elizabeth Beweick
  • Mary's Carol Peter Dale
  • Winter Wings George Szirtes
  • St Ita's Lullaby James Harpur
  • Speaking of Angels Rodney Pybus
  • The Sibyls in Amiens Cathedral Ruth Fainlight
  • Mithras and the Milkman Alison Brackenbury
  • Beagles Paul Muldoon
  • An Austrian Christmas John Greening
  • Sunt Lacrimae Rerum Vernon Scannell
  • Childermas Paul Hyland
  • At the Pantomime John Mole
  • Newton's Notebook (1667) Stuart Henson
  • Angel Vernon Hale
  • Our Lady of Indigo Pauline Stainer
  • Gods' Image Jane Griffiths
  • Happy Everyday Benjamin Zephaniah
  • Bird Psalm UA Fanthorpe
  • Flight into Egypt Peter Scupham
  • A Faggot John Moat
  • New Year Robert Wells
  • Tracking Stuart Henson
  • Christmas Cards Lotte Kramer
  • New Year's Day at Lepe Jeremy Hooker
  • Bluebell Time Michael Henry
  • Rain George MacBeth
  • Peredelkino John Burnside
  • Bibliographical Note

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