A wonderfully evocative Christmas poem from the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. It is Christmas Eve, 1799, and Dorothy Wordsworth is awake in the moonlight. She stands outside in the winter cold, waiting patiently. When the new day breaks it will bring family and friends to Dove Cottage. For tomorrow is her Christmas Birthday. Gorgeously illustrated by Tom Duxbury, this lovely little book evokes the snowy Lake District as Dorothy celebrates with her brother William Wordsworth and fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
“Up, rapt at her gate,
Dorothy Wordsworth ages
one year in an hour;
her Christmas birthday
inventoried by an owl,
clock-eyed, time-keeper.”
It was published as a small hardback book by panmacmillan in 2014 and is a perfect Lake District Christmas present.
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