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Take a moment with some well-chosen words from poet Brian Bilston

Needles I wrote a poem in the shape of a Christmas tree but then forgot to water it and only a few days later there were words over all the carpet Jolabokaflod The Icelandic tradition of giving new books on Christmas Eve and reading them as a family. oh, I wish it could be Jolabokaflod every day so I could lie in bed and read the year away but there's life to be lived and a world to be shook or at least that's what I once read in a book Merry It's a word which only comes out at Christmas. As for the rest of the year, it's as if it has been packed away in the attic with the decorations and the tinsel, waiting for its own time to shine. Rarely do we play hell with it. We do not…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2023

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