It is never easy to get up from a warm bed into a cold and dark winter morning ... Sir Gawain is crossing the Wirral. A poem for this very day, the solstice, the shortest day, what John Donne ...

The text of the book is actually a poem she wrote in the 1970s for The Christmas Revels (an annual celebration of the solstice ... about what makes us happy." With winter weather closing in ...