Michelle Latvala’s debut poetry collection, Between Latitudes, explores the meaning of home, ancestry and landscape across a ...

Recite these cozy Christmas poems to share the holiday spirit and ... around the birth of Jesus Christ, it has become a winter solstice holiday as well, celebrated by millions of people all ...

Continuing Radio 4's poetic celebration of the Winter Soltice, Kayo Chingonyi reads his poem, Winter Song, written especially for the occasion. Ben Wardle scrutinises the delicate issue of ageing ...

Alongside the miracle of light from Hanukkah, I grew up celebrating Shab-e Yalda, the ancient Persian winter solstice tradition ... summer fruits and read the poetry of Hafez, whose words ...

A little offbeat, “Winterlude” was a welcome surprise. After an original winter solstice poem from Worcester poet laureate Oliver de la Paz (who obviously was the only one who didn't see the ...

As part of our Christmas Book Appeal with Scottish Book Trust, here's a selection of brilliant short reads to mark Winter Solstice ... where numbers are poetry, and the universe can be understood ...

Today is the shortest day of the year, also known as the winter solstice. The solstice marks the start of winter in astronomical terms, where the start of seasons is determined by the tilt of the ...

Susan Cooper’s children’s book The Shortest Day, released in 2019, is a celebration of light returning after the winter solstice. The text of the book is actually a poem she wrote in the 1970s ...

Today, we saw people gather across the UK to celebrate the winter solstice. Hundreds headed to ... drink and read poetry. Nuts and fruits, particularly red fruits such as watermelon and ...