and yet the extraordinary thing is that the poem almost comes off, in spite of its artificiality.' It is true that the Winter scene is modelled on James Thomson's The Seasons and is also ...

Notes on a journey in winter across a wild landscape and with only a fearsome green giant waiting for you… Simon Armitage thinks Sir Gawain is crossing the Wirral. A poem for this very day ...

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 ...