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Advent 1955 John Betjeman	My Poem Chris Dalton	We Won't Have A Christmas This Year Verna S. Teeuwissen	The Tinkling of a Bell Chrissie McLoughlin	The Magic of Christmas Tom Krause	Under The Christmas Tree Joel Bjorling

Angels

Stephen Leake

Talking Turkeys

Benjamin Zephania

Christmas

John Betjeman

Goodwill To Men
- Give Us Your Money
Pam Ayres

Falling Snow

Alan Williams

Time for Sharing

Barbara Laughlin

Talking Turkeys

Benjamin Zephania

The Promise

Alan Williams

A Christmas Lesson

Tom Krause

All Those Amazing Dreams

Alan Williams

First Light

Stephen Leake

Epiphany

Stephen Leake

BC : AD

U.A. Fanthorpe

While Shepherds Slept

Chris Pearson

Advent

Stephen Leake

Preparing the Bird

Curtis Paulson

The Silent Dawn

Paul Curtis

The Starry Night

John Masefield

Winter Poem Laurie Lee	I Keep My Snowman In The Freezer Ian McMillan	Presence Stephen Leake	Just The Two Of Us Alan Williams	Christmas 1914 Mike Harding	Spirited Stephen Leake
Something For The Children Patricia Harewood	Carol of the Bells Paul Curtis	Back Home With Us For Christmas Alan Williams	The Wicked Fairy At The Manger U.A. Fanthorpe	The Christmas Herald Curtis Paulson	Christmas Envelopes U.A. Fanthorpe
It's Christmas Time Again Bob Lazzar-Atwood	Hunger Hill Alan Williams	Heaven On Earth John Greenleaf Whittier	The Angel Lady Bob Lazzar-Atwood	Let Me Come In Richard Bugg	The Gift Marion Caragounis
What The Donkey Saw U.A. Fanthorpe	Keeping Christmas	The Christmas Postman Alan Williams	Full Of Christmas Spirit Paul Curtis	Christmas Market Mike Harding	My Night With Santa Bob Lazzar-Atwood
A Christmas Carol Christina Rossetti	December John Clare	Joseph U.A. Fanthorpe	Winter William Shakespeare	For The Children Or The Grown-ups? Anon	P.S. To Santa Ivor Davis
Holy Night Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Christmass John Clare	The 365 Days Of Christmas Elvis McGonagall	Christmas List 2008 Tomi Fratto	Nativity	Greetings to the World Paul Curtis

Little Donkey

Eric Boswell

Christmas Surprise

Mike Agius

The Bird Of Dawning

William Shakespeare

Voices In The Mist

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Snowflakes

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Twelve Days Of Christmas
Traditional

Make We Merry

Anon

I Sing Of A Maiden

Anon

Christmas Bells

Henry W. Longfellow

Why Birds Signal

Joseph Weismantel

Softly The Night Is Sleeping
Anon

The Biggest Star

John L Sarna

Carol, For Candlemass Day

Anon

Now Thrice Welcome Christmas
Anon

The Christmas Pudding

Anon

The Friendly Beasts

Traditional

Marmion

Sir Walter Scott

The First Tree In The Greenwood
Anon

The Reckoning

Anon

The Christmas Blessing

Anon

The Spirit Of Christmas

Anon

Advice From Poor Robin's Almanac
Anon

The New Year

Anon

Now That The Time Is Come
Anon

Christmas Chill Paul Curtis	Open House Anon	St. Stephen Was A Clerk Anon	Old Year John Clare	A Mother's Christmas Tale Paul Curtis	Santa's New Idea Anon
Christmas Presents Anon	Have You Seen Christmas Mark Streuber	From A Treetop Kathy Carter	Camden Christmas Ann Marie Donohoe	The Road To Bethlehem Anon	In The Town Anon

Advent 1955

John Betjeman

The Advent wind begins to stir
With sea-like sounds in our Scotch fir,
It's dark at breakfast, dark at tea,
And in between we only see
Clouds hurrying across the sky
And rain-wet roads the wind blows dry
And branches bending to the gale
Against great skies all silver pale
The world seems travelling into space,
And travelling at a faster pace
Than in the leisured summer weather
When we and it sit out together,
For now we feel the world spin round
On some momentous journey bound -
Journey to what? to whom? to where?
The Advent bells call out 'Prepare,
Your world is journeying to the birth
Of God made Man for us on earth.'

And how, in fact, do we prepare
The great day that waits us there -
For the twenty-fifth day of December,
The birth of Christ? For some it means
An interchange of hunting scenes
On coloured cards, And I remember
Last year I sent out twenty yards,
Laid end to end, of Christmas cards
To people that I scarcely know -
They'd sent a card to me, and so
I had to send one back. Oh dear!
Is this a form of Christmas cheer?
Or is it, which is less surprising,
My pride gone in for advertising?
The only cards that really count
Are that extremely small amount
From real friends who keep in touch
And are not rich but love us much
Some ways indeed are very odd
By which we hail the birth of God.

We raise the price of things in shops,
We give plain boxes fancy tops
And lines which traders cannot sell
Thus parcell'd go extremely well
We dole out bribes we call a present
To those to whom we must be pleasant
For business reasons. Our defence is
These bribes are charged against expenses
And bring relief in Income Tax
Enough of these unworthy cracks!
'The time draws near the birth of Christ'.
A present that cannot be priced
Given two thousand years ago
Yet if God had not given so
He still would be a distant stranger
And not the Baby in the manger.

		An Anthology by Gaby Morgan A wonderful anthology of beautiful new and classic poems, carols and hymns for Christmas. It captures all the emotion and excitement of the festive season, from anticipation to enjoyment, to the joy of the New Year. Christmas is coming, The geese are getting fat, Please to put a penny In the old man's hat. If you haven't got a penny, A ha'penny will do; If you haven't got a ha'penny, Then God bless you! Anon.
	by U.A. Fanthorpe This collection brings together the poems U.A. Fanthorpe has been sending out to friends as Christmas cards since 1974. Now readers can enjoy Fanthorpe's yearly output in its entirety, including some previously unpublished poems. Her subject matter covers a broad range of seasonal characters, from angels to personified Christmas trees, and a variety of styles to match. "If you love or hate Christmas, believe or disbelieve passionately, or simply value short, pithy poems, this book will surely be a treasure for you. It's funny, irreverent and godly all at once. Can be given to the aged aunt or the stroppy brat in the sure knowledge that it will make both chuckle and feel it was written for them. I have bought 3 copies (and no, I don't know the author!)" by Jacob Polley This is the debut collection from the poet considered to be the new Paul Farley. Jacob Polley already has a formidable reputation as one of the sharpest and most unusual new voices to have appeared on the scene in many years. Now, with the publication of his first collection, "The Brink", readers will have their first opportunity to see his remarkable transforming imagination in action, where a jar of honey is '... the sun, all flesh and no bones / but for the floating knuckle / of honeycomb / attesting to the nature of the struggle', and a gull's hovering is 'suddenly akin / to dangling on a coat hook / by the back of a coat you're still in'. The Christmas connection in this excellent book of outstanding poetry is "Snow". I love it! You can read it now if you take this link If you would like to know more about this book or other Pan MacMillan publications you can use the following link: www.panmacmillan.com
	by Benjamin Zephaniah "Be kind to yu turkeys dis christmas"! Who else but Benjamin Zephaniah lets us know that turkeys 'jus wanna play reggae' and wakes us up to 'Civil Lies'? In my opinion this is an excellent, fun, well-illustrated book. Great for young and old and if you haven't got it yet then may I suggest that you put it on your next birthday list. Nice one Benjamin! Reviewed by Bernie from London. Other books by
	Editor: Douglas Brooks-Davies Illust'r: Dovrat Ben-Nahum This is a must-have collection of seasonal poems that is worth buying for the stunning watercolour illustrations alone, beautifully created by Dovrat Ben-Nahum. They are all here; the baby Jesus and the three kings, holly and mistletoe, angels and carols, mince pies and gifts in this wonderful selection of poetry on every aspect of Christmas, taken from the whole range of English verse, from the Middle Ages to the present day. There are many delightful poems to please every mood and taste. All you have to do to buy it is click the above illustration. (Sorry, UK only.)

Christmas Poetry