A stunning, highly illustrated gift book containing a festive flurry of classic and modern Christmas poems chosen and illustrated by Chris Riddell. This is the perfect stocking-filler for poetry lovers of all ages. Includes much loved traditional verse: The Night Before Christmas, The Twelve Days of Christmas, Deck the Halls, We Wish You a Merry Christmas and We Three Kings and poems by: Wendy Cope, John Agard, Neil Gaiman, Dylan Thomas, Brian Patten, Roger McGough, Imtiaz Dharker, Valerie Bloom, William Wordsworth, Thomas Hardy, Brian Moses, Roger Stevens, Hollie McNish, Clement Clarke Moore, Mary Oliver, Dom Conlon, Sue Hardy Dawson, Roger Stevens, Benjamin Zephaniah, Dave Calder, Adrian Mitchell, Clare Bevan, Sara Teasdale, A.F. Harrold, Jan Dean, Coral Rumble, George Wither, Rachel Piercey, Lemn Sissay, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Sylvia Plath, Ogden Nash, Robert Burns and Jackie Kay.