Spiracle - Twas The Night Before Christmas

Edited by Cherry Potts and Will Dady, this fresh anthology of festive poetry spans the centuries - from ancient solstice songs and medieval carols to contemporary reflections on the darker, quieter months and the bright, bustling days of celebration. 

“We have found a cornucopia of poems old and new, far wider than traditionally read, both in terms of the obvious poems that spring to mind and in the sense of what people tend to mean by ‘Christmas’. We were delighted to find many soulful, sometimes cheeky, often deeply community-focused ways of celebrating the winter dark and return of light, which we hope can breathe life into anyone’s winter festivities. Donkeys and wise men? Sure, but not as you know them, and so too the wayward band of Christmas temps. Father Christmas gets a look in, of course, together with his dark twin, Krampus”. - Cherry Potts & Will Dady

The words on the page are asleep or dead until a human voice breathes life into them. — 
Paul Cookson, Poet

Featuring poems by Martyn Crucefix, U.A Fanthorpe, W.B Yeats, Dean Atta, Jane Aldous and Frank O'Hara.

This audiobook is read by Dean Atta, Imtiaz Dharker, Emma Fielding, Sam Pamphilon, Emily Raymond and others.