A Poem for Every Day of Christmas

Ages 12 And Up

An inspiring anthology to keep you company for every day and night through the Christmas season.

A Poem For Every Christmas Day is a beautiful pocket-sized hardback collection of 31 poems taking you through the Christmas season, compiled by Allie Esiri.

Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with all the family, this book is a cosy accompaniment through the holiday season. Delight in festivities with poems from Thomas Hardy, E. E Cummings, Robert Burns and more.

The day-to-day format of this anthology invites readers to make poetry a part of their holiday season, and will get you in the Christmas spirit each and every day.

About the Author

Allie Esiri, who read Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge University, is an accomplished curator and host of live poetry events at The National Theatre, The Bridge Theatre, and at Hay, Oxford, Bath and Cheltenham literary festivals. Her anthology A Poem for Every Day of the Year was in the best books of the year list in The Times and the Observer and the audiobook is read by Helena Bonham Carter and Simon Russell Beale.

Zanna Goldhawk creates her illustrations from her seaside cottage in Cornwall. She takes huge inspiration from nature and animals, and has a mild obsession with colour and pattern (and coffee). Zanna studied illustration at the University of Gloucestershire, where she started her illustrated gifts and stationery business Papio Press with her husband. Now she splits her time between designing beautiful products and illustrating gorgeous books.