Twelve Poems for Christmas

This sparkling selection of seasonal poems, edited by Amy Wack, features all twelve shortlisted poems from Seren Books' inaugural Christmas Poetry Competition. This festive pamphlet will make a perfect stocking stuffer for the poetry-lover in your life.

Editor Amy Wack said, "The challenge of a successful Christmas poem is the same as a challenge of a 'regular' poem: both to embrace tradition and subvert it, to resist cliche. I was looking for variation of tone, manner and address, for brevity, and for a certain sparkling something, suitable for the season."

Pippa Little - St. Leonore and the Robin
Helen Overell - Camel
Cathy Bryant - Noticing Cards While Eating Stuffing
Alexandra Davis - Offering
Will Johnson - What Wish
Sarah Rowland Jones - Gabriel s Greeting
Gina Wilson - A Child for Our World
Nancy Charley - On Losing my Voice at Christmas
Nicola Healey - Two Pheasants
Philip Rush - Daylight is in Short Supply
Sarah Westcott - Guardians
Wendy Klein - The Usual Suspects

Amy Wack was born in Florida and educated at San Diego and Columbia universities. A graduate of Columbia writing programme in New York City, Amy Wack now lives in Cardiff and has been Poetry Editor at Seren since 1992, where she has edited a number of poetry collections, including Oxygen and Burning the Bracken. She was also Reviews Editor at Poetry Wales magazine for many years.